insipid

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• This sonnet is so insipid, so untrue to Cellinis real place in art, so false to the far from saintly character of the man, that I would rather have declined translating it, had I not observed it to be a good example of that technical and conventional insincerity which was invading Italy at this epoch. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
• I was not afraid that our curious expedition would be prevented by such apprehensions; but I doubted that it would not be possible to prevail on Dr. Johnson to relinquish, for some time, the felicity of a London life, which, to a man who can enjoy it with full intellectual relish, is apt to make existence in any narrower sphere seem insipid or irksome. —  Life of Johnson
• But let us quit these details, which are either insipid or laughable; I have always said and felt that real enjoyment was not to be described. —  The Confessions of J J Rousseau
• Nothing of all the cheer in the parlour that I taste; all's insipid, and all will be so to me, till I see and enjoy you again. —  Selected English Letters
• High Brunswicks, Bevern with Duchess, and still more important, with Son and with Daughter: -- insipid CORPUS DELICTI herself has appeared on the scene; and Grumkow, we find, has been writing some description of her to the Crown-Prince. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia

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