INSIPID in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for INSIPID, such as:

1. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid.
2. Your third estate is insipid, colorless, odorless, and shapeless.
3. In fact, brandy was good almost any time, so much better than insipid wine.
4. If I must give my opinion, I have always thought it the most insipid play in the English language.
5. She thought him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and extremely ugly.

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 Meanings and Examples of INSIPID
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
insipid
 a.  lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; dull
Classic Sentence:
1  Candide was very pleased with an actress who played Queen Elizabeth in a somewhat insipid tragedy sometimes acted.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXII
2  He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAME...
3  She thought him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and extremely ugly.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER
4  Your third estate is insipid, colorless, odorless, and shapeless.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
5  Then the tune with its feet always on the same spot, became sugared, insipid; bored a hole with its perpetual invocation to perpetual adoration.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
6  If I must give my opinion, I have always thought it the most insipid play in the English language.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  The comfort, the freedom, the gaiety of the room was over, hushed into cold composure, determined silence, or insipid talk, to meet the heartless elegance of her father and sister.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
8  The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia's example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 61
10  There was a kind of cold hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathised with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanor, and a general want of understanding.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34
11  In fact, brandy was good almost any time, so much better than insipid wine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
12  I had imagined, on the contrary, that on coming in he would at once break into his habitual thin, shrill laugh and fall to making his insipid jokes and witticisms.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IV
13  Her complexion was exquisitely fair, but the noble cast of her head and features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to fair beauties.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Such and such a formality or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against it.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS POOR
Example Sentence:
1  Flat prose and flat ginger ale are equally insipid: both lack sparkle.