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Blandness

noun

The trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern.

Lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property. Synonyms: insipidity, insipidness.

The quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner. Synonyms: smoothness, suaveness, suavity.

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"Blandness" Quotes from Famous Books

... of stately blandness which Mrs. Howth erected as a shield between herself and "that class of people" was a study: a success; the resume of her experience in the combat that had devoured half her life, like that of other American house-keepers. ...

— Margret Howth, A Story of To-day • Rebecca Harding Davis

... of a frown troubled the Brahminical calm of Mr. Greenough's brow, only to pass into unwrinkled blandness. ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... to say, Madame," pursues Mr. Snivel, with great blandness of manner, "when our white trash get to living with our negroes they are as well as dead. One never knows what comes of them after that. Being always ready to do a bit of a good turn, as you know, I looked in at Sam Wiley's cabin. Sam Wiley is a negro of some respectability, and generally ...

— Justice in the By-Ways - A Tale of Life • F. Colburn Adams

... lost none of his blandness. "I have only a single question to ask of you. I will first whisper it. If that does not convince you, I will ask it aloud. There are those here who will understand its value." He leaned toward the angry man and whispered ...

— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath

... The Professor put up his handkerchief, and fiendishly smiled into its folds. Little monster of malice! He now thought he had got the victory, since he had made me angry. In a second he became good- humoured. With great blandness he resumed the subject of his flowers; talked poetically and symbolically of their sweetness, perfume, purity, etcetera; made Frenchified comparisons between the "jeunes filles" and the sweet blossoms before him; paid Mademoiselle St. Pierre ...

— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

... money of their own, have they not?" inquired Mrs. Ingham-Baker, with the soft blandness of one for whom ...

— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman

Words linked to "Blandness" : unappetisingness, smoothness, insipidness, bland, insipidity, graciousness, suaveness, suavity, unappetizingness, unemotionality, emotionlessness