Adjective : an insipid personality. ,a rather insipid soup. From Dictionary.com.
I will use this word "insipidity" today 3 times in sentences to increase my Word Power. From Wordnik.com. [Paglia's purple piffle.] Reference
What is the secret of its weakness and utter insipidity?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
They descend into simple prettiness, which is simple insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
But then the gent ic passion, I doubt, would glide into insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
He is refined without false delicacy, and correct without insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference
It was in vain that she urged to the countess their insipidity and dulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
The reason of this insipidity is, that the ideality aimed at is all on the outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
Mrs. Owl would get a divorce from him inside of a month, on the ground of insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
All the spice and joy of evil doing had been exchanged for the insipidity of Paradise. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its harshness and insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850] Reference
For the poor Lady Clare, she is a personage of still greater insipidity and insignificance. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
The decline of the old English poetry is shown by an increase of diffuseness and insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Leucippe herself goes far to make amends for the general insipidity of the other characters. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
They are more refined than the northern religious dramas, but only too often fall into insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
He is in many ways a successful hero, and acts his part without either insipidity or priggishness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
To say that this is appalling is to state it with a degree of mildness which amounts to insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
It never ceases to amaze me how our Congresscritters can reduce a serious matter to such insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blankley: Too Few Troops, Too Much Spin] Reference
· · · 'Frivolity and insipidity are the prevailing characteristics of conversation; and nowhere in. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1] Reference
In some hands it has uncontrollable tendency to the artificiality and insipidity of funeral baked meats. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914] Reference
The heaviness and insipidity incident to boiled water may be somewhat relieved by afterward filtering it. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The mind, which has feasted on the luxurious wonders of fiction, has no taste of the insipidity of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Preface to Shakespeare] Reference
The insipidity, and yet the noise — the nothingness, and yet the self – importance of all those people!. From Wordnik.com. [Pride and Prejudice] Reference
Edith Bellenden, we are asked to believe, was fair without insipidity; Julia Mannering, who is to Waverley what. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
It was like a dish exactly suited to his taste, but delicate to insipidity because his palate was hardened to pepper. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
Yet it was not an age of gross and open vices; manners were not flagitious, they were merely of a nauseous insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
The duchesse's flattery was charmingly put, with just enough vivacity of tone to save it from the charge of insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
The strong hair, the thick upswept eyebrows, the resolute square face, had defeated the artist's well-meant insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
And then, with a smile of yet greater insipidity, he protested he was reduced to despair in leaving her, and walked on. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
It is this insipidity of society that forces so many of its members upon desperate adventures of gallantry, and upon deep play. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828] Reference
If in our moments of utter idleness and insipidity, we turn to the sky as a last resource, which of its phenomena do we speak of?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
In making trifles of this sort, girls should not forget that nothing is more effectual in preventing insipidity than a tiny scrap of onion. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII. No. 358, November 6, 1886.] Reference
How such a wretched jumble of inconsistencies, absurdity, and insipidity, can have been suffered ever to be performed, is a subject at once of wonder and regret. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
This state of affairs continued, my dear, until you attained the age of sixteen, when you began to feel a distaste for the insipidity of a domestic life, and longed for a change. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
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