trite
Origin of trite
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banal, dull, corny, hackneyed, chain, common, drained, exhausted, flat, hokey, jejune, moth-eaten, musty, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, shopwornExamples from the Web for trite
Contemporary Examples of trite
The things Lindsay shows Lohan doing should be trite and calming.
The Daily Pic: A watercolor shows how the great painter mixed the radical and the trite.
Did something so trite really belong on the letters page of the world's most important newspaper?
Think American Airlines Is Rotten? You Have No Idea How Good You Have ItPatrick Smith
October 11, 2012
The show may be trite, but Disney wisely had theater favorite Harvey Fierstein write the book.
They also have to be two words, and neither of them can be "exotic" or "trite," or commercial trademarks, or the word "operation."
Historical Examples of trite
Instinct is a sure guide, it always tends to what is useful and trite.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
For a while they talked of trite and inconsequential things.
The Harbor of DoubtFrank Williams
It would be trite to dwell on the particulars of her after story.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.Washington Irving
It is a trite remark that diamonds can be polished only by diamond dust.
The Life of Napoleon BonaparteWilliam Milligan Sloane
This last jest is so trite to-day as to be absolutely threadbare.