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词汇 blandly
释义 blandly
adverb
uk /ˈblænd.li/ us /ˈblænd.li/
in a way that does not show much interest, energy, or character: 枯燥乏味地,没精打采地,无生气地
Their home is blandly but expensively decorated.他们家的装修平淡无奇,但价格不菲。
Chain retailers are transforming towns into blandly identical places.各种连锁商店正在将城镇变得千篇一律、枯燥无趣。
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"I have no idea what you're talking about," he said blandly.
She works in a blandly average office.
The apartment belongs to a blandly pretty young woman called Maria.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tedious and uninspiring
(as) dull as ditchwateridiom
anonymous
banal
banally
basic
marmoreal
meh
menial
menially
middle-aged
staidly
stale
staleness
stodgily
stodgy
watch paint dryidiom
watch the clockidiom
wearisome
wearisomely
weary

Examples of blandly


blandly
Too often we are blandly told that a character is 'fascinating'.
The earlier decision de-emphasized the strictly legal aspect of the decree, blandly overlooking the questionable nature of the decision.
And it is considered beneficial because a rather blandly optimistic view of international communication assumes that this occurs on a cooperative and equitable footing (9).
Different theories present as blandly reflective, as if it were not understood that their application changes, sometimes radically, the meaning of the activity under scrutiny. 20.
Yet now the same party blandly reappears with the same recipe.
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All he can do is receive deputations, smile at them blandly and say how sorry he is.
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He replied blandly that everyone had to make a contribution.
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Yet it talks blandly about offering the farmer a sufficient assurance of the level and of the stability of his return.
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I am hound to put this quite blandly and almost personally.
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It also blandly assumes a direct correlation between road building and economic growth.
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He then blandly said that it did not matter, for it was the kind of thing which provoked wage claims.
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He replied blandly that it was about £6,900 per person.
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When she claimed for this she was blandly told by the water department that there was no scheme in her name.
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I was blandly told that they did not know.
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Then he blandly shrugged it all aside and said that he did not want to encourage hope.
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