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Meanings of bland in English
Lacking taste or flavor or tang.
Related terms
Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication.
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Examples for "flat"
Examples for "flat"
1
One small problem: the builders hadn't actually finished building the flat yet.
2
Central Wellington tenant Annie Dick said her flat had problem after problem.
3
The general economic situation in Germany urgently asks for a flat rate.
4
Now the best case scenario is that you're flat for the year.
5
So far it's fairly flat, a shipping source said regarding demurrage costs.
1
Was this such a dream; this insipid fellow in his fine suit?
2
The soul of one in debt is insipid, dry, and heretical altogether.
3
He wrote insipid society paragraphs and articles in a delicately involved manner.
4
In the Chronique everything is heavy, occasionally meaningless, and nearly always insipid.
5
She sank again into despondency; books were insipid, and society irritated her.
1
The selfish and egoistical life breeds always the vapid and vacuous heart.
2
Squinting, I could easily picture Ashley and Courtney in their vapid company.
3
Yet their lives were vapid monotonies, only long in months and years.
4
But the Greek dramas were not light and vapid like modern plays.
5
Mirages of seventy men shimmered over the vapid low-light image of Ozark.
1
The rice tasted like flavorless gruel and the pig fat, shoe leather.
2
He went to Feroni's; the oysters were flavorless, the Burgundy tasted like ink.
3
No wonder the preacher was disheartened, and preached a flavorless sermon.
4
You have a completely flavorless middle layer you throw away.
5
Second-quality saffron often includes the pale, relatively flavorless styles.
1
When the wench gives you kiss for kiss, it is sweet, but flavourless.
2
Dinner is a great big depressing bowl of flavourless stir-fried vegetables.
3
His personality was too definitely marked to leave any of his work flavourless.
4
If the accompaniments are boring and flavourless, then the roast fails.
5
No dainty so flavourless as a heart warmed up again.
1
Already she found her vengeance a poor, savourless thing; she felt that it belittled her.
2
Perhaps by-and-by that will be savourless: we degenerate.
3
He marvelled to see with what activity men and women played the most savourless of games!
4
Another mistake to be guarded against, is that of reverting too suddenly to rather savourless insipid food.
5
If Uncle Blair took the Story Girl away would not life become rather savourless on the hill farm?
1
Salt which is savorless is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill.
2
The people are savorless and proud of it.
3
For the time being life was savorless, and ambition had gone out like a snuffed candle.
4
Even as yet the bitterness of that humiliation was not savorless....
5
She had joined that simple circle over the way; she had mingled in its plain, provincial talk; she had shared its meagre and savorless pleasures.
Usage of bland in English
1
Our first gravy made this way was good but still too bland.
2
Inquiries about the health of relatives and bland comments on the weather.
3
I'd always thought his Jewish good looks too bland to be beautiful.
4
The smile on the face of the Japanese was childlike and bland.
5
There are plenty of things to fear about this bland family comedy.
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We don't want to be the bland leading the bland, he said.
7
The bland way in which she could lie reminded him of himself.
8
Not infrequently he referred to the advantage in terms of bland satisfaction.
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The conference goes by a secret name as bland as Universal Exports.
10
The record industry had stalled, sales were declining, the charts were bland.
11
Is macaroni cheese classic comfort food, or bland pap for Victorian palates?
12
His unprecedented internet letter was not expressed in his usual bland generalities.
13
No one noticed a bland minivan tooling along at the speed limit.
14
The last four generation of Micras have been mind-numblingly bland bubble cars.
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He said, with just a touch of sarcasm in his bland tones:
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By comparison, blender and food processor pestos can seem dull or bland.
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Bland across language varieties
Ireland
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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