soft-boiled

adjective

Definition of soft-boilednext
as in tasteless

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for soft-boiled
  1. tasteless
  2. vapid
  3. soapy
  4. insipid
  5. watery
  6. sudsy
  7. melodramatic
  8. flat
Adjective
  • Setting aside the general question of how necessary this show is to begin with, nothing here comes across as particularly tasteless.
    Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Who is Tony Hinchcliffe? Hinchcliffe, raised in Youngstown, Ohio, is a stand-up comedian who specializes in the roast style, in which comedians take the podium to needle a celebrity victim with personal and often tasteless jokes.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of tasteless
Adjective
  • Lamar portrayed Drake as a vapid, exploitative pop star.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Though the film currently holds a 74% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, with critics attributing much of the success to Washington, others bemoaned its vapid execution.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of vapid
Adjective
  • There is just cause for the soapier parts: Manet was married, and Morisot wed his brother.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2024
  • The group that seems to have inspired Reid is Fleetwood Mac, which, with its shifting intramural love relationships, sundry drug problems and issues of control — the soapiest of rock’s many operas — was a romance novel/miniseries waiting to happen.
    Robert LloydTelevision Critic, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
Definition of soapy
Adjective
  • At the far extreme, there is the insipid libertarianism of Ron Paul, the former Texas representative, who has claimed that Marine detachments guarding U.S. embassies count as examples of military overstretch.
    Bret Stephens, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2013
  • The blandly positive lyrics seemed even more insipid amid all the bedroom jams.
    Eric Webb, Austin American-Statesman, 1 June 2024
Definition of insipid
Adjective
  • Cream or custard fillings can separate, and become watery or lumpy.4 Cream will not whip after being frozen.
    Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 10 Dec. 2024
  • People with allergies typically have itchy or watery eyes, puffy eyes, itchy throat, sneezing, runny nose or congestion, and a sinus headache.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of watery
Adjective
  • Plastic cups sloshing with sudsy golden lagers and pale pink rum punch glide to tables crowded with friends.
    Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 29 July 2024
  • In an attempt to buck traditional stereotypes, some couples will have photos of themselves eating pizza in elevators, taking a sudsy bath on their wedding morning, or jumping on the bed with their bridal parties.
    Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 1 July 2024
Definition of sudsy
Adjective
  • The melodramatic music playing in the background of the clip seemed to be the icing on the cake, adding a layer of surreal ambiance to an already strange scene.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The emotional Moon enters melodramatic Leo at 8:51 am EST and opposes inflexible Pluto in logical Aquarius shortly thereafter, setting up a tug-of-war between feelings and facts.
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of melodramatic
Adjective
  • The broader crypto market, as measured by the CoinDesk 20 index, hovered below the flat line. Among crypto stocks, Coinbase was litte changed in premarket trading.
    Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
  • This ties performance to payment, in contrast to traditional influencer approach — most influencers charge a flat rate, so they get paid the same whether their video gets two views or 2 million.
    Elias Leight, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of flat
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