platitudinous
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Etymology
Origin of platitudinous
1855–60; platitude + -inous ( see platitudinal, -ous)
Example Sentences
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As the battle between these cartoon villains and Nate goes to court, the writing becomes painfully platitudinous, skating around the real controversies surrounding the domestication of intelligent primates.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
Rivera could do only, perhaps, what he was good at: working, fulfilling commissions, and organizing human types and platitudinous dogma into impressively complex, large-scale compositions.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
Rather than speaking that day of national renewal, a platitudinous staple of presidential inaugurals, Joe Biden focused on national reunification.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2022
The responsibility of a photographer is not only to capture these platitudinous concepts of truth and beauty in artmaking, or the ways in which a subject might see or imagine themselves to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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