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Meanings of platitude in English
Synonyms
Examples for "commonplace"
Examples for "commonplace"
1
Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
2
But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
3
Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace.
4
But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace.
5
The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
1
It's come so far so soon, and already it's cliche-ridden. Jim sighs.
2
It's the usual cliche of taking it one game at a time.
3
In the case of Haddish, that cliche is something of an understatement.
4
IT was, to abuse a football cliche a weekend of two halves.
5
Certainly, some of Corbyn's replies have the excruciating ring of celebrity cliche.
1
The answer is that modern cliché: to keep trying to fail better.
2
The 'cross-fertilisation of ideas' is a cliché, but one with unintentional fecundity.
3
Some of Harvey's lyrical snapshots are startling; others come close to cliché.
4
But those second acts don't always sink to the level of cliché.
5
It's a cliché in Ireland that the agenda starts with the split.
1
Background: Cardiovascular safety concerns about inhaled ipratropium bromide have recently been raised.
2
Some treacly bromide about medical ethics and respect for individuals, no doubt.
3
Aluminium bromide, AlBr3, is prepared in the same manner as the chloride.
4
Duke officials concede that bromide applications contributed to the elevated trihalomethane levels.
5
Neither suggestion nor bromide would have been effective in working our cure.
1
At first glance the answer seems obvious to the point of banality.
2
In reality the cloak of secrecy is best achieved through urbane banality.
3
During dinner we talked around things, maintaining a safe level of banality.
4
The Vinyl Word: Joe Queenan revels in the electrifying banality of Kraftwerk.
5
The banality of the exchange is what helps calm the witness down.
Usage of platitude in English
1
And you might spare me your platitude, Andrew, The Laird replied savagely.
2
Then he has to laugh at the platitude, and she laughs, too.
3
Cheap wit will then often pass for brilliancy, and platitude for wisdom.
4
Or shall we say that most definitions hang between platitude and paradox?
5
But she was spared the necessity of scraping up some ridiculous platitude.
6
Coining phrases when a good platitude would do and save anxiety.
7
And so the second great preventive of clear thinking is the tranquillising platitude.
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And this idealism-torisk again a platitude-hasbeen in the air of America.
9
I know it sounds like a platitude, but it is true.
10
The mayor, the first to break the silence, murmured a platitude.
11
Assuredly they are not-inutter stolidity of platitude and absolute impotence of drivel.
12
It is a biological fact-themysterious and boundless platitude of life.
13
He almost anticipated our modern idea, or platitude, of the Zeit-geist.
14
It was the vulgar, ordinary platitude of an Italian intimacy of this kind.
15
Taylor ventured upon the raveled platitude that clothes do not make the man.
16
A plain stone bearing a name, a date, and a platitude.
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Platitude through the time
Platitude across language varieties
United Kingdom
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