bland
Example Sentences
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They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.
Temperatures are dropping, grocery prices keep climbing, and there’s a small, almost alchemical satisfaction in transforming the blandest, cheapest grain in the aisle into a breakfast worth lingering over.
From Salon
“The Predicament” is less immediately engaging; it suffers from a low-key opening and a bland title.
Fresh on the heels of another focus group and poll-tested report from the centrist Welcome PAC, the Democratic consultant class is once again arguing that the party should stick to bland policy platform-driven campaigns.
From Salon
For many years, the broad convention has been that senior politicians who want to get near government keep their mouths diplomatically shut about the royals, aside from bland praise, or supportive quiet murmuring.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.