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insipid

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1. insipid - Adjective

2. insipid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.

Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. William Congreve

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! William Makepeace Thackeray

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. Friedrich Nietzsche

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Dr. Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot. The insipid Dr. Insulza should resign from the secretariat of the OAS for daring to play that role. Hugo Chávez

Better a woman who is dark-skinned and gracious, than one who is light-skinned and insipid. Sicilian Proverb

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