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blandly

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bland/bland/

▶adjective

1 lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting.
■ (of food or drink) lacking flavour or seasoning; insipid.

2 showing no strong emotion.

– derivatives
blandly adverb,
blandness noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘gentle in manner’): from L. blandus ‘soft, smooth’.

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