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Значения термина platitude на английском

португальский
chavão
каталонский
banalitat
испанский
banalidad

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

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Использование термина platitude на английском
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And you might spare me your platitude, Andrew, The Laird replied savagely.
Kindred of the Dust
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Then he has to laugh at the platitude, and she laughs, too.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
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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]
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I know it sounds like a platitude, but it is true.
Ebony
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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
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It is a biological fact-themysterious and boundless platitude of life.
The Ghost in the White House / Some suggestions as to how a hund...
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He almost anticipated our modern idea, or platitude, of the Zeit-geist.
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance
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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
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A plain stone bearing a name, a date, and a platitude.
Complete Books of Blood
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Platitude через время
Platitude в диалектах
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