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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

    The History of Henry Esmond 1852

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Una LaMarche: Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap 2010

  • 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.

    Project Runway Finale Part Two Recap 2010

  • “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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