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Meanings of platitudinous in English

Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality.

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Usage of platitudinous in English
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He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth.
Adventure
2
This is platitudinous, but it needs to be borne in mind.
Haydn
3
The thing has become platitudinous, but remains as difficult as ever.
The Bed-Book of Happiness / Being a colligation or assemblage of...
4
That statement isn't in reality as platitudinous as it seems at first thought.
The Story of The American Legion: The Birth of the Legion
5
These gentlemen, with few exceptions, made heavy, ponderous, and platitudinous speeches.
My Memories of Eighty Years
6
They can hold more press conferences and be less platitudinous in explaining their policies.
The Guardian
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There might have been some platitudinous nodding about things heading in the wrong direction.
The Guardian
8
There seemed nothing platitudinous to Brandon in his present experiences.
The Cathedral: A Novel
9
Nevertheless Martin liked him better than the platitudinous bank cashier.
Martin Eden
10
It will be rather platitudinous, but it is a necessary reminder for what follows.
What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
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Yet Chopin admired Kalkbrenner's finished technique despite his platitudinous manner.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
12
At their best, the changes that have been implemented are "platitudinous".
The Guardian
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The stoutest heart may fail, without blame, before the flat-footed pedestrianism of these platitudinous volumes.
The Glory of English Prose / Letters to My Grandson
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That platitudinous discussion of the play to-night, for instance.
North of Fifty-Three
15
Why not settle down upon the formula that to be platitudinous is to be happy?
As We Were Saying
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It could have passed for an extended and more than usually platitudinous Thought for the Day.
The Guardian
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Platitudinous through the time