vanillafied

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1. informalGeneric, safe, or anodyne.

   Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante.

   2007, Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 243

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   Well, look no further. "The First Wives Club," which opens Friday, is the latest and arguably the slickest chick flick to reduce its adult male characters to inconsequential quivery-lipped milksops. It's not so much male-bashing as all-out male-demolition, a happy-faced Hollywood excuse to trot out one vanillafied stereotype after another. Men are stupid! Men are venal! Men are libidinous reptiles!

   1996 September 19, Amy Biancolli, “Hollywood Humour Runs The Gamut In 'First Wives'”, in Albany Times Union

   Costa may just be the fresh blast of honest-to-goodness, not-playing-games, old-school-meets-new-school, funky, fuzzy-haired soul that this vanillafied, predigested, pop-tart-obsessed media culture has been looking for.

   2008 October 8, Darren Ewing, “Review: Nikka Costa funkifies sparse crowd in SLC”, in The Salt Lake City Tribune

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of vanillafy