Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a bland manner; with suavity; mildly; gently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
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- adverb In a
bland manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a bland manner
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Examples
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I glanced at the Duke, to find his small blue eyes creased against the sun, his expression blandly impenetrable.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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Assessment was trotted out to replace Aptitude, though it did little more than render the word Test blandly redundant.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Assessment was trotted out to replace Aptitude, though it did little more than render the word Test blandly redundant.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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"Permit me to say," put in blandly Mr. De Saussure, – "that I am rejoiced to find I did not understand you at a former conversation we held together.
Daisy in the Field 1869
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By the time Dick had come to that part of the poem, wherein the bard describes as blandly as though he were recording a dance at the opera, or a harmless bout of bucolic cudgelling at a village fair, that bloody and ruthless part of our campaign, with the remembrance whereof every soldier who bore a part in it must sicken with shame — when we were ordered to ravage and lay waste the
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By the time Dick had come to that part of the poem, wherein the bard describes as blandly as though he were recording
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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The new launch vehicle, dubbed blandly the Space Launch System, would consist of a first stage that uses up to five space shuttle main engines.
News - latimes.com 2011
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And he has a point: The whole collection looks kind of blandly polished, each piece resembling something already on the racks at a department store, albeit an upscale one.
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And he has a point: The whole collection looks kind of blandly polished, each piece resembling something already on the racks at a department store, albeit an upscale one.
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“It wasn’t Gerdi, it was Jill from the Rescue, and she drives slower than you do,” Cammy called blandly.
Loser/Queen Jodi Lynn Anderson 2010
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