platitudinarian
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of platitudinarian
1850–55; platitudin(ous) + -arian, perhaps on the model of latitudinarian
Example Sentences
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Those who fight shy of Maeterlinck because they credit the report, sufficiently widespread, that he is a platitudinarian, might be advised to sample him in this essay.
From Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Bithell, Jethro
The archbishop, thinking to have a little fun with his guest, said, "Of course, first of all, I must know what your church politics are: are you an attitudinarian, a latitudinarian, or a platitudinarian?"
From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by White, Andrew Dickson
We see, too, constantly, how thin is the barrier separating the chief Anglo-Saxon novelists and playwrights from the pasture of the platitudinarian.
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science.
From What Social Classes Owe to Each Other by Sumner, William Graham
Any good platitudinarian will already have forestalled it.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
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