platitudinarian

American  

[plat-i-tood-n-air-ee-uhn, -tyood-] / ˌplæt ɪˌtud nˈɛər i ən, -ˌtyud- /

noun

1. a person who frequently or habitually utters platitudes.

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Etymology

Origin of platitudinarian

1850–55; platitudin(ous) + -arian, perhaps on the model of latitudinarian

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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)