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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.
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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.
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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.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 June 2023
But Trump wouldn’t parrot even these largely platitudinous policy goals.
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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 is a competent if unimaginative (it was made for Lifetime, after all) retelling of the real-life tale.
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Despite its expense and hard-working cast, its extensive, expensive and eye-filling special effects, and an effective but ear-splitting score by Jerry Goldsmith, the film remains surprisingly small, thanks to David Odell’s unimaginative, earthbound screenplay.
Adjective
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Wemby didn’t hesitate, but since English isn’t his first language, his initial response — something banal about being a team player who wants to win a lot of games — came out a bit disjointed.
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Grief mangles cognition and memory in ways that can make even banal tasks feel surreal, if not impossible.
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.
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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.
Adjective
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But cruise missiles are more versatile in conventional warfare.
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The majority of Georgian wine reaching export markets is made in what producers call the European style — stainless steel fermentation, conventional winemaking, easily approachable.
Adjective
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Maybe so, but think of how badly Congress had stated those hackneyed ideas.
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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.
Adjective
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year.
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“Platitudinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitudinous. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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