Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being bland; mildness; gentleness; soothingness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being bland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state, quality, or characteristic of being
bland .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
- noun the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern
- noun lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is opposed to what it calls the blandness and crassness of the modern world.
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A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure.
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But she managed to school her expression for blandness, averting her eyes slightly to stare at a tapestry.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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But she managed to school her expression for blandness, averting her eyes slightly to stare at a tapestry.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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But she managed to school her expression for blandness, averting her eyes slightly to stare at a tapestry.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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But she managed to school her expression for blandness, averting her eyes slightly to stare at a tapestry.
Tempted by Your Touch JEN HOLLING 2002
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It’s this ‘parsnip policy’ that, arguably, imbues ELT books with a certain blandness – what Mario Rinvolucri once characterised as “the soft, fudgey, sub-journalistic, woman’s magaziney world of EFLese course materials” (1999, p. 14).
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It’s this ‘parsnip policy’ that, arguably, imbues ELT books with a certain blandness – what Mario Rinvolucri once characterised as “the soft, fudgey, sub-journalistic, woman’s magaziney world of EFLese course materials” (1999, p. 14).
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He has sought to turn his everyman image—some call it blandness—into a virtue, saying these are serious times.
Pawlenty's Homespun Tale Neil King Jr. 2011
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They floated, and she began to suspect their blandness was a form of turtle happiness, or at least contentment, from the way they blinked their eyes in the sun, and continued to float.
Something Unpredictable Barbara Chepaitis 2003
sionnach commented on the word blandness
Jose Saramago's account of a city laid low by a mysterious epidemic which causes all of its victims to lose their ability to taste their food.
April 3, 2008
trivet commented on the word blandness
Heh-heh-heh.
April 3, 2008