Vocabulary Word
Word: bland
Definition: soothing or mild (food); agreeable; causing no trouble or offence
Definition: soothing or mild (food); agreeable; causing no trouble or offence
Sentences Containing 'bland'
I looked around, and there stood Mr. Bixby, smiling a bland, sweet smile.
The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes.
As I was looking out of window that same evening, it surprised me, and made me rather uneasy, to see Mr. Micawber and Uriah Heep walk past, arm in arm: Uriah humbly sensible of the honour that was done him, and Mr. Micawber taking a bland delight in extending his patronage to Uriah.
Mr. Spenlow, settling his chin in his cravat and rubbing it softly, went over the items with a deprecatory air--as if it were all Jorkins's doing--and handed it back to Tiffey with a bland sigh.
There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that is; like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for butter.
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