bland
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The California electorate has typically favored experience over youth, and favored bland and boring over razzle and dazzle.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Given the choice, I’d prefer to see a truly terrible movie over one that’s merely bland and mediocre.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
“A lot of the songs were quite bland, but they were a way of saying we can be members of the same community.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Dylan would have to probably work hard to write such bland and pointless garbage.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Though he had not sought out the impending duel with Burr, there was nothing in Hamilton’s lifelong pattern that would permit a self-consciously bland and supremely triumphant refusal of the challenge.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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