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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

... you mean, of—a—my daughter's time?" Lord Theign, confessedly and amiably interested, had accepted these intimations—yet with the very blandness that was not accessible to hustling and was never forgetful of its standing privilege of criticism. He had come in from his public duty, a few minutes before, somewhat flushed and blown; but that had presently ...

— The Outcry • Henry James

... himself in the way of his guest, made leading remarks, and even asked if he had seen the splendid dwelling of Captain Allen. The handsome stranger held him firmly at a distance. And not only on that day and evening, but on the next day and the next. He was polite even to blandness, but suffered no approach beyond the simplest formal intercourse. Every morning he was seen going to Captain Allen's house, where he always stayed several hours. The afternoons he spent, for the most part, in ...

— The Allen House - or Twenty Years Ago and Now • T. S. Arthur

... 'as a 'eadache, Sir Isaac," said Mr. Snagsby with extreme blandness. "She asked me to acquaint you. She 'as ordered tea in 'er ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... Miss Faith," said the Squire, with a blandness on one side of his face which but poorly set off the other. "I go down for the paper once a week, and 'lection times maybe oftener, but I don't do much in the letter line. Correspondence never was my powder magazine. I ...

— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

... The tone 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. "Be gentle, but let them ...

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

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