Sentence example with the word 'platitude'

platitude

abstraction, cliche, familiar tune, glittering generality, insipidity, old joke, prosaicism, retold story, stereotyped saying, trite saying, vapidity

Definition n. a trite or obvious remark

Last update: June 29, 2015

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The platitudes of our political leader really bored us.   [noun]

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In spite of that, Lydgate is characteristically medieval - medieval in his prolixity, his platitude, his want of judgment and his want of taste; medieval also in his pessimism, his Mariolatry and his horror of death.   [noun]

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Selectors will take refuge - if you let them - in meaningless platitudes.   [noun]

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"Match that with its complementary platitude and you have the essence of modern fiction," observed Mrs.   [Please select]

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The mayor, the first to break the silence, murmured a platitude.   [Please select]

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And you might spare me your platitude, Andrew," The Laird replied savagely."   [Please select]

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This is all so true as to be trite--so trite as to be a common platitude.   [Please select]

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At the best it's an ugly metaphor, and you're making it a platitude.'   [Please select]

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Drowned out not just by the violent protest but also by the bland platitudes of the world supposed "leaders."   [Please select]

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Lady Dainton was sitting on my left, and when opportunity offered I opened with a platitude on the economic position of woman.   [Please select]

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It sounds a platitude, but Peter used to say that it was the big secret of all the famous criminals.   [Please select]

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