platitude
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If you've been following Conor's various impressions over the last year or so, you'll immediately recognize these two caricatures: The obliviously arrogant Ian Poulter and Tiger "The Sentient Platitude" Woods.
From Golf Digest • May 15, 2019
Not for nothing is he known to the press corps as David Platitude.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013
No biographer, so far as I know, has identified Platitude, but Mr. Donne evidently knew him, for he calls Borrow’s account a “gross and unfair caricature.”
From Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 by Hooper, James
Platitude, plat′i-tūd, n. flatness: that which exhibits dullness of thought: an empty remark made as if it were important.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
"Old Platitude always thinks that the world is coming to an end," said Currie.
From The American Senator by Trollope, Anthony
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