Meanings of rather uninspired in English

Plum ate her first course as usual, two rather uninspired crab cakes, but then excused herself to go to the ladies'.

Thackeray's great fault is prolixity; he sometimes wanders on through rather uninspired page after page where the reader longs for severe compression.

Their first courtship, pursued under intolerable restrictions of time and place, had been a rather uninspired affair, and its end a foregone conclusion.

The concluding chapters are a sober, objective (though rather uninspired) consideration of how man can guard himself against his own killer instincts.