banal

It doesn’t help that Ms. Doucet’s prose, replete with stock expressions, is tiresomely banal.

Yet in a manner almost impossible to describe, he stood above or outside his banal and dull-witted persona.

There seemed to be something basic or banal about whiling away hours in the gym.

Like so much of her career, Deen’s plea for forgiveness was outsized and totally singular, so much so that it became fodder to convey the brief intensity of an otherwise banal annoyance.

Yet in extraordinary times the constant juxtaposition of the banal and the monstrous becomes surreal.