banal
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Banal balms surround Janice, slowly driving her mad.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
Banal bits of conversations get recounted, even when they seem only to serve as narrative clutter.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022
Banal good wishes soon gave way to increasingly desperate calls for help.
From Washington Post • May 19, 2020
Banal, brilliant; basic, complex: Joker had his cake, ate it and smeared the jam all over his face.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2019
Banal verse we still have in larger amounts than we should; but the amateur journals of a decade or two ago had reams of it.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
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