What is "insipid"

Usage examples of "insipid".

How she would startle the dull, insipid, tea-table simperers on our Helicon--nay, with what scorn she would traverse the Helicon itself.

We exchanged only a few words, there was nothing witty, nothing interesting in our conversation, which struck us both as insipid, and we found more pleasure in the thoughts which filled our minds.

Woodforest Gardens north of the city, choking on all of those cookie-cutter houses with their perfect lawns, grotesquely manicured shrubberies, and insipid street names like Shady Lane.

One vegetable--brought on in state, and all alone--usually insipid lentils, or string-beans, or indifferent asparagus.

I did not purchase any gloves, and I resolved to avoid her and to abandon her to the insipid and dull gallantry of Sanzonio, who sported gloves, but whose teeth were rotten, whose breath was putrid, who wore a wig, and whose face seemed to be covered with shrivelled yellow parchment.

Wulran of the Gray Eyes when he offered, two years ago, and now he was happily settled down with that silly Lara of Northside and her insipid giggle.

The pimps in this town are a company of empty, idle, insipid, dull fellows that have no design in them.

That I should be spending my time with that insipid Katherine Witherspoon and Richard Todd, people of my own kind.

I am not of your opinion, for the amorous pleasure is insipid when love does not throw a little spice in it.

And in Marseilles they make an excellent dish of a common fowl, which is often so insipid.

Her prime weaknesses, aside from the habit of prosaic disillusionment, are a tendency toward erroneous geography and history and a fatal predilection for bestrewing her novels with insipid little poems, attributed to one or another of the characters.

A few couples in sports clothes talked quietly over ice-and-foliage drinks, enjoying the air conditioning and ignoring the insipid music from ubiquitous but discreet speakers.

Anything he consumed these days, he complained, tasted sour or flat or insipid and caused heartburn.

It is only those in whom indolence amounts to a vice, that do not desire excitement after an interval of repose: it is only those in whom the need of excitement is a disease, that feel the tranquillity which follows excitement dull and insipid, instead of pleasurable in direct proportion to the excitement which preceded it.

Of course, despite her considerable premarital experience, Yasmin had been little more than a gifted amateur when she married Hafiz compared to what she knew now, but she couldn't imagine how, after tasting her own charms, Hafiz could so much as bear to look at that fat, ugly, insipid cow who was not fit to fill Yasmin's douche bag!