Historical Examples

• The pages are laden with sage counsel and bromidic expressions.

  The Armed Forces Officer

  U. S. Department of Defense

• But the conceit tastes mellow and naf and bromidic and appetizing to me, like cream and raspberries in July.

  I, Mary MacLane

  Mary MacLane

• Brian, it was plain, had been decoyed by bromidic tales of cub reporters and "record-smashing beats."

  Kenny

  Leona Dalrymple

• He made his gallant, bromidic speeches to each one in turn, playing no favorites.

  A House Party with the Tucker Twins

  Nell Speed

• I asked with that bromidic zeal to please that so often discloses the fly just when the ointment's smell is sweetest.

  White Shadows in the South Seas

  Frederick O'Brien