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  • adjective superlative form of bland: most bland.

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Examples

  • Atlantic Yards' new plans show residential buildings that seem to be doing their best to hold their tongues, make nothing more than the blandest statement possible, and pray dearly not to offend the sensibility that has made Brooklyn so attractive to new residents in the past few decades.

    Bruce Ratner's Exercise in Bland Robbie Whelan 2011

  • Own the Night is radio pop at its blandest, only dipping far enough into "country" to fool the most passive of listeners.

    Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music Shawn Amos 2011

  • But my experience is that the dominant paradigm in “old media” is to provide the blandest, most innocuous content with an eye toward attracting advertisers, rather than providing interesting content with an eye toward attracting readers.

    Matthew Yglesias » Newspapers Without Profits 2009

  • It is unsurprising, then, that the exchange led to this, a bloated tear-stick of a song that desperately wrings emotion from the blandest of platitudes.

    This week's new singles 2011

  • I have the blandest of taste buds, the most unsophisticated of palates.

    I Say Tomato, You Say Tabasco. Lots of It. Katherine Rosman 2012

  • Dick Stockton, the blandest, most resolutely inept announcer the nation has ever produced, turns up everywhere: on TBS misidentifying the right fielder in the Major League Baseball playoffs, then later that same weekend getting everything wrong during the football game on Fox.

    Revenge of the 60-Year-Old Has-Beens Joe Queenan 2011

  • But by Day Four, I'd forgotten whatever happiness I once knew, and even the blandest, healthiest cut of skinless, organic chicken seemed like prime rib.

    Paul Jury: 6 Things I Learned on the Fast Track Detox Diet Paul Jury 2011

  • Your kid may grouse that these are three of the blandest cars on the road, but they are reliable, four-cylinder cars that aren't too big or too small, and are easily serviced.

    The Top Cars for Teens: Better Safe Than Sporty Joseph B. White 2011

  • But by Day Four, I'd forgotten whatever happiness I once knew, and even the blandest, healthiest cut of skinless, organic chicken seemed like prime rib.

    Paul Jury: 6 Things I Learned on the Fast Track Detox Diet Paul Jury 2011

  • To the blandest of bland for people not feeling well, to meals that are simple and easy to digest, to helping people use spices.

    Cancer Patients Go Gourmet Melanie Grayce West 2012

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