insipid

In a sentence

Six example sentences with insipid, each labelled with its topic.

• The soup came out insipid, so she stirred in miso, lemon zest, and a spoonful of chili paste.

  Cooking

• The sequel is insipid, recycling every joke from the original without a single new idea.

  Movies

• Beside the Rothko, the hotel lobby paintings looked insipid, beige rectangles chosen to offend nobody at all.

  Art

• The single is insipid, three chords and a chorus so bland that the radio host forgot it while introducing the next song.

  Music

• The speech was insipid, forty minutes of applause lines that promised nothing anyone could vote against.

  Politics

• The novel's prose is insipid, page after page of polite description in which nobody wants anything very much.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

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