bland, adj.
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lacking taste or flavor or tang
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
bland flat flavorless flavourless insipid savorless savourless vapid
sample sentences
"a bland diet""insipid hospital food"
"flavorless supermarket tomatoes"
"vapid beer"
"vapid tea"
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smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1
bland politic smooth suave
sample sentences
"he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage""the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"
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lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
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bland flat
sample sentences
"a bland little drama""a flat joke"
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