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Meanings of insipidity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dreariness"
Examples for "dreariness"
1
The day was dark and rainy; the landscape was a flat dreariness.
2
The charm of life was gone; there was nothing but dreariness left.
3
I see that all is not dreariness and misery in the Poplars.
4
As to the house itself, it was the dingy abode of dreariness.
5
My dreariness has not been induced by the look of the house.
1
He moved along with it, amazed by the blandness of the presence.
2
It is adding, they suggest, to a worrying blandness in musical tastes.
3
However impatient he may have been with her blandness he said readily:
4
It reflects a wildness and a kindness, and rejects blandness and self-importance.
5
Embedded in the blandness of the Corn Belt were plenty of Jokers.
1
The questions did not focus on just the chief news correspondent's boringness quotient.
2
His tone reflected the boringness and triviality of the incident.
3
If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry?
4
The series feigned to mock their homeland's eccentricity and boringness.
5
I need boringness -for nothing to be happening.
1
In Manchester United's ongoing insipidness under José Mourinho a perfect storm of problems is found.
2
The happy medium means respectability, and respectability means insipidness.
3
In fact, the quiz-show segment saves this kid-friendly title from the insipidness often endemic to children's software.
4
When we call a thing earthy we impute cloddishness; by 'watery' we imply insipidness; 'airy' is for something trivial.
5
A slavish accuracy in figures, an arid lack of imagination, reduces conversation to the insipidness of flat wine, and Blaze's talk was never dull.
Usage of insipidity in English
1
To our tongue the sonnet is mortal, and the parent of insipidity.
2
The characteristics of rhetoric are insipidity, mannerism, and monotonous parallelism of clauses.
3
He is refined without false delicacy, and correct without insipidity.
4
She is divinely innocent, but roguishness saves her from insipidity.
5
What is the secret of its weakness and utter insipidity?
6
Pretty, without vanity or affectation; gentle, without insipidity; and simple, yet highly polished, in mariners.
7
Certainly this was a return to the pre-Loughnane insipidity.
8
They descend into simple prettiness, which is simple insipidity.
9
The insipidity, and yet the noise-thenothingness, and yet the self-importanceof all those people!
10
Where others find insipidity I find salt and fire.
11
With all this equability of temper and remarkable benevolence, there was no insipidity of character.
12
But as it is, you would die of my violence, or I of your insipidity.
13
The decline of the old English poetry is shown by an increase of diffuseness and insipidity.
14
The reason of this insipidity is, that the ideality aimed at is all on the outside.
15
The heaviness and insipidity incident to boiled water may be somewhat relieved by afterward filtering it.
16
In that case, insipidity would be no objection.
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Spanish
Insipidity through the time
Insipidity across language varieties
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