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  • n  the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
  • n  the attribute of having been domesticated

  • The source of Howells' crippling tameness is more complex than his frequently cited refusal to write about sex (no American could write about sex in those days of rump-hump .
  • His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage.
  • As Rodgers Hart see it, what was killing musicomedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon.
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  • Taylor Swift's First Vine Pokes Fun at How Tame She Is
    (Getty Images) Taylor Swift 's tameness has been a running joke for pretty much her entire career. The Nashville-based superstar is the first to point out how much she prefers Law & Order: SVU and a glass of lavender lemonade over the club scene, so it wasn't too big a surprise that she dedicated her first-ever Vine post to the couch, her cat, and Titanic . "At 9pm, I'm either onstage or doing ...
    June 20, 2013 - Zimbio

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