insipid

Example Sentences

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Liverpool have taken one point from their past three games and their last performance, in an away defeat at Brighton, was really insipid.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

One does wonder how the actors fishing while swapping such insipid dialogue don’t cross their leaders and spend most of the time untangling, before flying their plane into the middle of a Rocky Mountain thunderstorm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

He hopes a deeper relationship with European neighbours can help fire up Britain's insipid economy and inject life into a premiership that has so far been deeply unpopular with the public.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

An hour later, the series felt over, the massive change of fortune wrought by both the inspired effort from the Nuggets and insipid play of the Lakers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2024

When we woke in the morning, the rain had stopped, though the world was still insipid and dreary, and water was dripping from the trees.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson