Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality.
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She said it best herself: it was corny, but it was fun.
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I had never managed to portray human nature without being horribly corny.
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I know it sounds corny, but I'd like us to be friends.
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Now, this is not the opening line of a corny mother-in-law gag.
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It had been love at first sight, as corny as that was.
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The guests arrived shortly and there were the usual stiff, bromidic greetings.
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By a similar reasoning, a Hypo-Sulphite can, at a step, become bromidic.
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Caliph felt fairly certain there was some kind of bromidic metaphor going on.
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The mirrored bromidic mind gives back only what it has taken.
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Sulphites come together like drops of mercury, in this bromidic world.
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The conversation, owing to the intervention of other of the guests, became general and platitudinal.
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Perry quickly midwifed-ascreator, writer, and director-thesoapy The Haves and Have Nots and trite platitudinal working-class comedies like Love Thy Neighbor.
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Things that had seemed drearily theoretical, dry, axiomatic, platitudinal, showed themselves to be great generalizations from a torrent of human effort and mortal endeavour.
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He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth.
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This is platitudinous, but it needs to be borne in mind.
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The thing has become platitudinous, but remains as difficult as ever.
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That statement isn't in reality as platitudinous as it seems at first thought.
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These gentlemen, with few exceptions, made heavy, ponderous, and platitudinous speeches.
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They can hold more press conferences and be less platitudinous in explaining their policies.
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There might have been some platitudinous nodding about things heading in the wrong direction.
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There seemed nothing platitudinous to Brandon in his present experiences.
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Nevertheless Martin liked him better than the platitudinous bank cashier.
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It will be rather platitudinous, but it is a necessary reminder for what follows.
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Yet Chopin admired Kalkbrenner's finished technique despite his platitudinous manner.
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At their best, the changes that have been implemented are "platitudinous".
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The stoutest heart may fail, without blame, before the flat-footed pedestrianism of these platitudinous volumes.
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That platitudinous discussion of the play to-night, for instance.
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Why not settle down upon the formula that to be platitudinous is to be happy?
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It could have passed for an extended and more than usually platitudinous Thought for the Day.