platitudinous
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Etymology
Origin of platitudinous
1855–60; platitude + -inous ( see platitudinal, -ous)
Example Sentences
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Rivera could do only, perhaps, what he was good at: working, fulfilling commissions, and organizing human types and platitudinous dogma into impressively complex, large-scale compositions.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
Rather than speaking that day of national renewal, a platitudinous staple of presidential inaugurals, Joe Biden focused on national reunification.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2022
The responsibility of a photographer is not only to capture these platitudinous concepts of truth and beauty in artmaking, or the ways in which a subject might see or imagine themselves to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
“It sounds platitudinous enough, but it isn’t, thanks to Hall’s tight yet modest prose,” our reviewer, John Kaag, wrote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2020
Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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