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UK
/blˈændnəs/
]
[ US /ˈbɫændnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈbɫændnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
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the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern
the blandness of his confession enraged the judge - lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property
How To Use blandness In A Sentence
- Oddly, we have reached the stage where there might still be a singular vision, but too often it is being micro-managed at executive level to the point of blandness and is often hobbled by an unhealthy mix at executive-committee stage of half-understood notions of political correctness tied to an essential distrust of viewers 'intelligence. Can British TV produce drama as good as Mad Men?
- 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.
- 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.
- Instead, he underplays and it's a joy to watch him assume just the right mask of deferential blandness to manage his Colonel.
- It was not remotely greasy and any tendency towards blandness was countered by the saltiness of the feta, while the orange butter sauce saved the whole dish from becoming too dry.
- There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future.
- Instead, the blandness of the Hollywood versions merely underlines the oddness, individuality and appeal of the originals.
- The poor must be grateful for gimcrack blandness. Times, Sunday Times
- A check-the-boxes approach to creativity is more likely to result in blandness and failure. Disney’s Iger Shows Up The Street
- The husband's determination to mastery, which lay deep below all blandness and beseechingness, had risen permanently to the surface now, and seemed to alter his face, as a face is altered by a hidden muscular tension with which a man is secretly throttling or stamping out the life from something feeble, yet dangerous. Romola