as in cliche
an idea or expression that has been used by many people
"blondes have more fun" is a silly platitude
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Recent Examples of platitude
And Romero and his curatorial team didn’t really engage with Abramovic beyond cursory platitudes.
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Kim Córdova, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
No matter how appropriate the words are, the communication will feel less like a celebration and more like an inauthentic, low-effort platitude due to the lack of human effort.
—Andrew Brodsky, TIME, 11 Feb. 2025
Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a little while.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
Yet platitudes of peace collide with acute realities for Ukraine along the 600-mile front line, which buzzes with drones and the near-constant reverberations of artillery and rocket fire.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Jan. 2025
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Kim Córdova, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025
No matter how appropriate the words are, the communication will feel less like a celebration and more like an inauthentic, low-effort platitude due to the lack of human effort.
—Andrew Brodsky, TIME, 11 Feb. 2025
Perhaps the fires that devastated Los Angeles in early January will take such platitudes out of circulation, at least for a little while.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2025
Yet platitudes of peace collide with acute realities for Ukraine along the 600-mile front line, which buzzes with drones and the near-constant reverberations of artillery and rocket fire.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for platitude
Noun
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The song, the first disco hit and an indelible gay anthem, here feels like a pandering cliche.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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However, and forgive the cliche, but GenAI tools are evolving so fast that what got your organization here won’t get it there.—
Clint Boulton,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The President’s sweeping orders confirm the truism that political shifts test the elasticity and resilience of American democracy.—
Blake D. Morant,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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The truism has it that most great New York magazine editors come from away—from the West or the Midwest or across the Atlantic—and arrive with an ability to see what natives don’t.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The two-dimensional characters communicate in bromides; Lena’s fellow privates, who suffer from the laziest defining characteristics (coarse Southern gal, proper preacher’s daughter, New Yorker), are the worst offenders.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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In place of triumph-of-the-human-spirit bromides, though, what the book delivers is its own kind of cinema, harsh and true.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
8 July 2024
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“Platitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitude. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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