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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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... am not so happy,' he answered—with such blandness that a servant by the door choked, and had to be hustled out in disgrace. 'But since Miss—er—Masterson is here, I shall be glad to place my rooms at ...

— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman

... the tun; one hundred times did he purify them in clearest water; one hundred times with tireless hands did he knead the creamy paste, mingling it at last with colors known only to himself. Then was the vase shapen and reshapen, and touched and retouched by the hands of Pu, until its blandness seemed to live, until it appeared to quiver and to palpitate, as with vitality from within, as with the quiver of rounded muscle undulating beneath the integument. For the hues of life were upon it and infiltrated ...

— Some Chinese Ghosts • Lafcadio Hearn

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

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... fierce and lurid passions which he inherited from his nation and his clime, at all times but ill concealed beneath the blandness of craft and the coldness of philosophy, were released in the breast of the Egyptian. Rapidly one thought chased another; he saw before him an obstinate barrier to even a lawful alliance with Ione—the fellow-champion of Glaucus in the struggle which had baffled his designs—the ...

— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

... try him in any direction. You began to praise his intellect—an intellect of the highest and worthiest kind,... and he walked away! You began to praise his moderation, he instantly cut short your first words. You began to express admiration for his blandness and natural suavity of manner,... yet even here he resisted your compliments; and if you were led to exclaim that you had found a man who could not be overcome by those insidious attacks which every one ...

— Seekers after God • Frederic William Farrar

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