The adj bland has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid -- (lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea")
2. bland, flat -- (lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke")
3. politic, smooth, suave, bland -- (smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error"; "affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability" - Ezra Pound)