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bland
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adjective
(= flavorless, flavourless, insipid, vapid)
lacking taste or flavor or tang
a bland diet
insipid hospital food
flavorless supermarket tomatoes
vapid beer
vapid tea
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adjective
(= flat)
lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
a bland little drama
a flat joke
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adjective
(= politic, smooth)
smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
infarct
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noun
localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply