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Recent Examples of platitudinous
For now, Chow himself might cop to the platitudinous quality of his own descriptions.
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John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
These meager efforts to humanize them further in a couple shots does little to improve their platitudinous conception.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
Image Image Today there is an address, probably platitudinous, in which a politician or pop star delivers some variation of the liberal democratic gospel.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
But that platitudinous jumble seems like an afterthought, an attempt to add thematic complexity to an American crime footnote rendered perplexingly dull.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
But Trump wouldn’t parrot even these largely platitudinous policy goals.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
These meager efforts to humanize them further in a couple shots does little to improve their platitudinous conception.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
Image Image Today there is an address, probably platitudinous, in which a politician or pop star delivers some variation of the liberal democratic gospel.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
But that platitudinous jumble seems like an afterthought, an attempt to add thematic complexity to an American crime footnote rendered perplexingly dull.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
But Trump wouldn’t parrot even these largely platitudinous policy goals.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for platitudinous
Adjective
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This meant that teams were rewarded more for winning, encouraging imaginative and positive play over unimaginative and negative play aimed at sneaking a win or grinding out a draw.—
Cesar R. Torres,
The Conversation,
26 May 2026
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Neutrals can get boring, but this easy palette reads effortless, not unimaginative.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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All game was fair game, and eating wild things was both luxurious and banal—throughout the country the consumption of wild animals was entirely typical.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Yet despite their cultural staying power, power ballads have historically received little scholarly attention, in part because they are often dismissed as schlocky and banal.—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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There is no cultural ethnic pandering, no consideration to what, in this context, would have been a trite idea of diversity and inclusion.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
1 June 2026
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But Hacks never really engaged with the complexity of those disclosures, and by Kathy’s brief appearance this final season, she’s smoothed out into a trite obstacle in Ava’s quest to reboot Deborah’s old sitcom.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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Unmoored from the family unit, and inflated by success and ambition, she is left to roam the rainy hills like a beast that has exiled itself from conventional society.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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That store, in a mixed use development on South Coast Highway 101, faced lagging sales and was one of nine to close nationwide as the chain — months shy of its acquisition by Amazon — faced new competition from Walmart and other conventional grocers.—
Roxana Popescu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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Callie seems to be anticipating—or demanding—some soothing, platitudinal advice.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
5 Sep. 2021
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There is a prescient, pitch-perfect satire of the superficiality and platitudinal meaninglessness of modern life.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
22 Feb. 2021
Adjective
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Maybe so, but think of how badly Congress had stated those hackneyed ideas.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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While not exactly a feminist screed, the script grants nary a free pass to the glut of hackneyed gender conventions in the golden-age canon without at least cracking a joke.—
Naveen Kumar,
Variety,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Other artists copied his style, which at first the artist considered flattering but later saw it as unoriginal as his popularity grew.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Apr. 2026
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This makes your home feel intentional and personal instead of sterile and unoriginal.—
Ashlyn Needham,
The Spruce,
8 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Platitudinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitudinous. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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