insipid
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Such austerity only whetted my childhood fondness for concoctions that now make me wince: grape soda, root beer, orange Fanta, even a hideous insipid confection known as cream soda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
It’s an eye-crossing quantity of goodwill, so insipid and repetitive as to become unreadable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
For head coach Steve Borthwick another uninspired and insipid performance, 18 months out from the Rugby World Cup, raises the most awkward and far-reaching questions.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 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
The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing insipid
Grade 10, List 4
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"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
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