[ UK /blˈænd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫænd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
    the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
    he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
  2. lacking taste or flavor or tang
    vapid tea
    insipid hospital food
    vapid beer
    flavorless supermarket tomatoes
    a bland diet
  3. lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
    a flat joke
    a bland little drama
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How To Use bland In A Sentence

  • The critics call its recipes bland, unhelpful, unoriginal and unhealthy. The Sun
  • A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
  • Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
  • Steve maintains that the peppers give the bland turkey a piquant flavour.
  • So far, so good, so much more credible—and spoiled only slightly by the blandishment that those that fail should present plans for recapitalization "as swiftly as possible. Is This the End of the Beginning for the Euro Crisis?
  • The two-piece brass section added a full and funky sound that helped detract from the sameness and blandness of many of Mayer's songs.
  • The law, the church, letters, art, and politics all enticed him; but he could not decide of which mistress the blandishments were the sweetest. The Bertrams
  • God's omniscience means he knows all our needs and God's omnipresence means we can pray to him wherever we are, but if we fall into bland repetition of these truths, they will grow tiresome.
  • Surprisingly, Albee points to the new-play development programs found in theatres across North America (involving dramaturges, readings, workshops) as a source of the blandness of so much of the drama of the past 20 years.
  • Flash fried cuddle fish was tough and not great with a bland stretchy taste.
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