flavorless

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Recent Examples of flavorless The highest-impact way to avoid underseasoned, flavorless potatoes is to season the potato-cooking water thoroughly. Molly Baz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025 The nearly flavorless beads could be integrated into everyday foods, according to the ACS, and even formed into tapioca-like balls for desserts or bubble teas. Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The cannoli chips are pretty flavorless, but the ice cream itself is fine. Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for flavorless
Adjective
  • Street Kings is bland, forgettable pulp — Reeves doesn’t enliven it, getting buried along with the rest of a fine ensemble that includes Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, and a pre-Captain America Chris Evans.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Companies such as OpenAI fine-tune the models behind modern chatbots not just to imitate existing writing, but to use the particularly bland and cheerful style that any chatbot user recognizes.
    Vauhini Vara, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead of a hearty stew of beans, meat, and spices like cumin and chili powder, Skyline or Cincinnati chili is a thinner, slightly sweet meat sauce with strong notes of cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 23 Oct. 2025
  • What the team found instead was a thin layer of clay, less than one-hundredth of an inch thick, which had formed on top of the animals’ skin.
    Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The worst are lumps of yuck thanks to cheap, tasteless ingredients.
    Jolene Thym, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Hooking up with your ex in high school or college is tasteless.
    Sarah John, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • On the road, the Murano sidesteps the insipid CVT vibe of the past.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Callahan’s baritone is rich and full, but the rest of the instrumentation feels insipid.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 29 July 2025

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“Flavorless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flavorless. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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