Michael Leunig

An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be.

Australian Cartoonist

William Makepeace Thackeray

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

English Novelist

Maira Kalman

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

American Author

Miguel de Cervantes

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Spanish Novelist

Karl Marx

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

German Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.

French Lawyer

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

English Poet

Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

American Writer

Anita Loos

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

When describing food, 'insipid' implies it's so lacking in flavor it doesn't stimulate the senses. Not just mildly bland.

Beyond Taste

'Insipid' often carries a negative feeling, suggesting disappointment or dissatisfaction with a lack of taste.

Negative Connotation

Use 'insipid' to diplomatically criticize food when you want to be kinder than saying 'bad' or 'awful'.

Mildly Polite Criticism

As an analogy to taste, 'insipid' describes experiences that fail to provoke thought or hold attention.

Dullness Level

Calling something 'insipid' can seem rude; it's not just an objective observation but a subjective judgment.

Not Plain Honesty

Describing something as 'insipid' also suggests that it lacks passion, enthusiasm, or energy.