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platitudinize

American

[plat-i-tood-n-ahyz, -tyood-] / ˌplæt ɪˈtud n aɪz, -ˈtyud- /

especially British, platitudinise

verb (used without object)

platitudinized, platitudinizing

to utter platitudes.

platitudinize British

/ ˌplætɪˈtjuːdɪˌnaɪz /

verb

(intr) to speak or write in platitudes

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Other Word Forms

platitudinization noun
platitudinizer noun

Etymology

Origin of platitudinize

First recorded in 1880–85; platitudin(ous) + -ize

Example Sentences

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Désir, 52, a bald and bespectacled consensus seeker, has been mocked as an “apparatchik” and chided for his party-loyalist platitudinizing—his “wooden tongue,” in the French phrase.

From Newsweek

"A Hoosier Holiday" is far more illuminating, despite its platitudinizing.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Éugene Brieux, with his Y. M. C. A. platitudinizing, is greater than Molière, with his ethical agnosticism, his ironical determinism.

From Project Gutenberg

Pope's letters are the literary exercises of a man platitudinizing about virtues he did not possess.

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Aspiring socially, she was reserved, pedantic, platitudinizing, thoroughly self-sufficient.

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