platitudinous

[ plat-i-tood-n-uhs, -tyood- ]

/ ˌplæt ɪˈtud n əs, -ˈtyud- /

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adjective

characterized by or given to platitudes.

of the nature of or resembling a platitude.

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Origin of platitudinous

1855–60; platitude + -inous (see platitudinal, -ous)

plat·i·tu·di·nous·ly, adverbplat·i·tu·di·nous·ness, nounnon·plat·i·tu·di·nous, adjectivenon·plat·i·tu·di·nous·ly, adverb

un·plat·i·tu·di·nous, adjectiveun·plat·i·tu·di·nous·ly, adverbun·plat·i·tu·di·nous·ness, noun

Everyone this side of Charles Krauthammer agrees that Romney was general and platitudinous and not that engaged.
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All his accomplishments are boiled down to a single platitudinous paragraph.
8 Juiciest Bits From Cain’s Memoir|David A. Graham|September 30, 2011|DAILY BEAST
The stoutest heart may fail, without blame, before the flat-footed pedestrianism of these platitudinous volumes.
The Glory of English Prose|Stephen Coleridge
And I do not say this simply as an echo of what others before me have said, or to use a platitudinous phrase.
Successward|Edward W. Bok

Which is my platitudinous way of agreeing with the last postscript of your letter.
August First|Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews and Roy Irving Murray
Why not settle down upon the formula that to be platitudinous is to be happy?
The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner|Charles Dudley Warner
It's to the honour of us anyhow that we can and do keep touching without the more platitudinous kind of demonstration of it.
The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II|Henry James