“On the wall by the stairs, an insipid painting of a bear in a rowboat had a smattering of blood drops across the white frame.”

“By the way, incongruity is the middle name of this insipid film with characters too many and too sketchy and actors short of work or talent, or both.”

“Grimm worked his way through an insipid meal of broad beans and mutton in silence.”

“The treatment of the vectorial case appears to be insipient in the literature.”

“It is in its essential elements an insipient revolution which, if it succeeded, would subvert the established institutions of Government.”

“Due to the rapid adoption and change rates insipient to all things internet-related, a good deal of information would be lost with yearly data.”