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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 means that adults, tired of yet another iteration of unimaginative, uninspired shlock targeting teens, are more open to watching non-English language movies and TV shows now than a few years ago.—
Alexis Alexanian,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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The instrumentation turns flat and unimaginative.—
Billie Bugara,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The final two-thirds of ARIRANG are more pop-friendly but no less banal.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
24 Mar. 2026
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Screenshots of headlines and childhood narratives for specific manosphere personalities hint at a larger problem without fully mapping it, and the result is a banal portrait that paints these guys as mostly thriving.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Hughes had been asked to write for trite Hollywood productions like Sol Lesser’s 1939 film Way Down South.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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That’s all well and good, but the series still needs a sturdy narrative to hold it all together, rather than ping-ponging between random subjects offering trite, emotionally hollow morality lessons.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The potential ground operation would reportedly fall short of a full-scale invasion but could involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops, the officials were quoted as saying.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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But its conventional naval power looks severely degraded, while Western allies retain strong minesweeping capabilities that could be deployed to keep global trade flowing.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 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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Wise knew that these hackneyed tools would get him nowhere.—
Billie Bugara,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2026
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Few parents can follow the hackneyed wisdom of living in the moment.—
Yiyun Li,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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This makes your home feel intentional and personal instead of sterile and unoriginal.—
Ashlyn Needham,
The Spruce,
8 Jan. 2026
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This seems a rather unoriginal name to be chosen by a woman whose talent lay with words.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Dec. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Platitudinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitudinous. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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