A saying that is overused or used outside its original context, so that its original impact and meaning are lost.
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 .
8 And this idealism-torisk again a platitude - has been 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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