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A saying that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost.

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        Uso de platitude en inglés
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        And you might spare me your platitude, Andrew, The Laird replied savagely.
        Kindred of the Dust
        2
        Then he has to laugh at the platitude, and she laughs, too.
        Floyd Grandon's Honor
        3
        Cheap wit will then often pass for brilliancy, and platitude for wisdom.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 / Little J...
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        Or shall we say that most definitions hang between platitude and paradox?
        The Art of Public Speaking
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        But she was spared the necessity of scraping up some ridiculous platitude.
        Crown of Slaves
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        Coining phrases when a good platitude would do and save anxiety.
        The ginger man
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        And so the second great preventive of clear thinking is the tranquillising platitude.
        War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War
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        And this idealism-torisk again a platitude-hasbeen in the air of America.
        Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series]
        9
        I know it sounds like a platitude, but it is true.
        Ebony
        10
        The mayor, the first to break the silence, murmured a platitude.
        The Fortunate Youth
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        Assuredly they are not-inutter stolidity of platitude and absolute impotence of drivel.
        The Age of Shakespeare
        12
        It is a biological fact-themysterious and boundless platitude of life.
        The Ghost in the White House / Some suggestions as to how a hund...
        13
        He almost anticipated our modern idea, or platitude, of the Zeit-geist.
        Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
        14
        It was the vulgar, ordinary platitude of an Italian intimacy of this kind.
        George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
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        Taylor ventured upon the raveled platitude that clothes do not make the man.
        An Arkansas Planter
        16
        A plain stone bearing a name, a date, and a platitude.
        Complete Books of Blood
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        Platitude a través del tiempo
        Platitude por variante geográfica
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