Bland

(adj.) lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; 'a bland little drama'; 'a flat joke' .

(adj.) lacking taste or flavor or tang; 'a bland diet'; 'insipid hospital food'; 'flavorless supermarket tomatoes'; 'vapid beer'; 'vapid tea' .

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• Mr. Kenge also came to speak to us and did the honours of the place in much the same way, with the bland modesty of a proprietor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mr Wegg (who had had nothing else in his mind for several nights) took off his spectacles with an air of bland surprise. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Yes, 'tis rather a rum course, said Venn, in the bland tone of one comfortably resigned to sins he could no longer overcome. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He was crisp, fresh, cheerful, affable, bland; but so surprisingly innocent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• His voice had recovered its bland tone, but a dark cloud still hung on his features. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She put her hands over her ears, and looked at the high bland moon. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Presents are made to the Boffin servants, and bland strangers with business-cards meeting said servants in the street, offer hypothetical corruption. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Hardly that, Doctor, hardly that, said Holmes, in his blandest voice. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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