(a.) Wanting in the qualities which affect the organs of taste; without taste or savor; vapid; tasteless; as, insipid drink or food.
(a.) Wanting in spirit, life, or animation; uninteresting; weak; vapid; flat; dull; heavy; as, an insipid woman; an insipid composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is unacceptable in this city for us to play like that in a game of such importance to the people, against your local rivals that are at the bottom of the league, who fought for every single ball and we weren’t good enough.” Valencia’s captain, Paco Alcacer, also gave a scathing assessment of the team’s insipid performance.
(2) Browne said: "I have some unease that we are trying to pitch ourselves as a party that splits the difference between the other two … there's a sense of insipid centrism that is reassuringly unthreatening to people.
(3) The next morning, as the Lib Dems tried to come to terms with a media that had, overnight, recast their leader from insipid also-ran to hero, poll results that Clegg could not have dreamed of 24 hours earlier were still pouring out.
(4) In cases when the insipid signal was reinforced by salt food and the animal ate it (though during thirst it rejected the food), strong cortex activation was observed with the involvement of paraventricular parts of the hypothalamus.
(5) Instead, Cissé was left unattended to glance into the corner and you could almost hear the offers coming in for McClaren, who had given his players an expletive-filled rebuke after last week’s insipid defeat to Leicester , to pen a study on man-management.
(6) She's immediately more commanding and less insipid than Abi.
(7) Jol came into the game beleaguered as Fulham extended their sorry start to the season with an insipid defeat at Southampton last weekend and a mid-week Capital One Cup exit at the hands of Leicester City.
(8) When they did their efforts were insipid, summed up by an incident when Kevin Toner spent so long in space on the left waving for the ball that the crowd cheered when he received it, only for the teenager to put his cross straight out of play.
(9) Istiklal made Broadway look like a neon bauble, and the Champs Élysée seem insipid.
(10) England travelled to Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night with their squad severely depleted by injury and the performance in the insipid 1-1 draw against the Republic of Ireland having drawn stinging criticism from a former national striker, Gary Lineker.
(11) Taarabt was not needed against an insipid Aston Villa .
(12) In terms of hypophyseal function, the ex-novo onset of postoperative pan-hypopituitarism and insipid diabetes was only observed in one case.
(13) The effectiveness of 1-deamino-8-d-arginine-vasopressin (DDAVP) has been evaluated in a case of insipid hypothalamo-hypophyseal familial diabetes.
(14) When you get to the one structure designed by Herzog & de Meuron at the end – a series of wooden barns for Carlo Petrini’s Slow Food movement – you sense the whole thing might actually have been a bit insipid if left in the hands of their restrained Swiss good taste.
(15) Insipid nationalism is a great way to displace the problems of “extreme capitalism” on to a particular ethnicity or minority group.
(16) Supporters jeered the side during another insipid United display.
(17) When lateral ventricle infusion of HS was performed in rats with a hereditary lack of Vp (diabetes insipidic rats) no pressor response was obtained.
(18) Bruce had described this game as “bigger than the FA Cup final” but his side failed to stir themselves sufficiently during an insipid first-half display that only sparked to life once Mahrez struck.
(19) Fletcher agreed that the insipid championship defence that has left United 17 points behind Liverpool, the leaders, had hurt the reputation of the club and players.
(20) For Leeds, whose last home win was in March against Ipswich, there was plenty of defiance on the terraces, with whole-hearted chants for the Leeds owner, Massimo Cellino, to go but there was little on the pitch as they produced another insipid home performance.