trite
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If that were an innovative idea, we’d have been worshipping at the heels of last year’s equally topical yet no less trite sci-fi horror “Companion.”
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
They put their readers to sleep by deploying trite phrases in the passive voice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Stocks, indexes, and call-option implied volatility are advancing to ever-higher highs, despite innumerable risks that are almost too trite to mention.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
It may sound trite to say that football is more than a game, but for those who remained in Ukraine, it is important to see representatives of their country succeed on the international stage.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Only one viewer was rapt, leaning forward in her seat, nodding at each trite sentiment, smiling while dabbing at wet eyes.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
The resultant essay, titled “E Unibus Pluram,” took special pains not to descend into lazy “anti-TV paranoia,” “far cruder and triter than what the critics complain about.”
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2015
The “life lessons that our innocent hero learns may sound like the tritest of homilies,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2018
The tritest way is that we get to inhabit other lands, other customs, other personalities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
Maybe every writer is doomed to have their tritest sentence become their most-tweeted, but in Joan Didion’s case, it feels particularly unfair that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” has become so ubiquitous.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2015
The tritest of all exercises in voyeuristic celebrity worship, that flimsy fold-up guide to the homes of actors and actresses represents the ultimate divide between the “haves” and “have-nots.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2015
This is why the tritest utterance about the past, youth, early love, and the like, has always about it an indefinable flavour of poetry, which pleases and affects.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander
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