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

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

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

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.

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

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)