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Platitude meaning
An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse. | A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting. | Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
Example sentences (6)
But the champion platitude more than ever is each team claiming their prospects are: 1) more advanced, and/or 2) greater in number and/or 3) going to make a difference this year.
Psychologist Marny Lishman says those around Lines fell into “the platitude trap”.
What underlies the weasel rhetorical manifesto promises and pledges, an ever flowing gushing literary of platitude, banality and cliché.
Every few feet, a wall decal or poster offered an inspirational platitude.
Written and directed by Dan Fogelman (creator of TV’s “This Is Us”), started with a pointless homophobic joke and went down from there, wasting a wonderful cast on a leaden script laden with platitude and coincidence.
It was more than a platitude and it had context.