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Recent Examples of platitudinous
For now, Chow himself might cop to the platitudinous quality of his own descriptions.
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John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
These meager efforts to humanize them further in a couple shots does little to improve their platitudinous conception.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
Image Image Today there is an address, probably platitudinous, in which a politician or pop star delivers some variation of the liberal democratic gospel.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
The song that resulted in this frantic, logistically improbable session is stirring but callow, with a gospel-style chord progression that gives false weight to the platitudinous lyrics.
—Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
The collection of essays and case studies doesn’t make an explicit case for or against the office, or offer platitudinous architectural solutions (more lounges, more outdoor space).
—Curbed, 4 Jan. 2023
But that platitudinous jumble seems like an afterthought, an attempt to add thematic complexity to an American crime footnote rendered perplexingly dull.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
But Trump wouldn’t parrot even these largely platitudinous policy goals.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
She’s been criticized for this unwillingness to hold to account someone with views that directly threaten his staff’s lives and livelihoods, and for her faintly platitudinous conclusion that food might be able to unite people divided by much more than physical borders.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 July 2020
John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
These meager efforts to humanize them further in a couple shots does little to improve their platitudinous conception.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
Image Image Today there is an address, probably platitudinous, in which a politician or pop star delivers some variation of the liberal democratic gospel.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 23 May 2024
The song that resulted in this frantic, logistically improbable session is stirring but callow, with a gospel-style chord progression that gives false weight to the platitudinous lyrics.
—Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024
The collection of essays and case studies doesn’t make an explicit case for or against the office, or offer platitudinous architectural solutions (more lounges, more outdoor space).
—Curbed, 4 Jan. 2023
But that platitudinous jumble seems like an afterthought, an attempt to add thematic complexity to an American crime footnote rendered perplexingly dull.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
But Trump wouldn’t parrot even these largely platitudinous policy goals.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
She’s been criticized for this unwillingness to hold to account someone with views that directly threaten his staff’s lives and livelihoods, and for her faintly platitudinous conclusion that food might be able to unite people divided by much more than physical borders.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 8 July 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for platitudinous
Adjective
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Unlike the expressiveness of Blauvelt’s long collaboration with Kelly Reichardt, the visuals here look flat and unimaginative.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Feb. 2025
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Such an unimaginative and bland group of coaches and programs.—
Antonio Morales,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The thundering poet termed the result uninspired and banal, so the other professor went into Dickinson’s 1,800-poem corpus, retrieved an obscure quatrain and presented it to the poet, who called the result banal and uninspired.—
David Galef,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2025
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Seeking Clues in Cabinet Cards The poignant images, at once banal and intimate, in the Lynch Family Photographs Collection contain mysteries perhaps only the public can solve.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Its first season felt like a preamble – slow and trite.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2025
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And so a rather trite statement gains immortality in the realm of logic as the Epimenides Paradox.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Its imposing size and dramatic silhouette should, according to conventional design wisdom, limit its range.—
Shoko Wanger,
Architectural Digest,
28 Feb. 2025
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The 36 dwarf galaxies are varied in their properties, and many exhibit puzzling orbits that conventional theories have so far been unable to explain.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Callie seems to be anticipating—or demanding—some soothing, platitudinal advice.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
5 Sep. 2021
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There is a prescient, pitch-perfect satire of the superficiality and platitudinal meaninglessness of modern life.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
22 Feb. 2021
Adjective
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The movie’s a little more hackneyed and obvious now, but its central idea is still an undeniably creepy one: possessed children with pitchforks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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Which is a nauseatingly hackneyed and clichéd — not to mention stupefyingly reductive — type of statement to make about any kind of art or entertainment, of course.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
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The idea may be just as unoriginal as florals for spring.—
Adrianna Rodriguez,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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The writing in general felt designed by committee to be as inoffensive and unoriginal as possible.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Platitudinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platitudinous. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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