pabulum

Example Sentences

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Hidden Valley Renaissance is the ranch dressing of Italian Revival architecture — mostly pabulum, sort of has taste, taken for granted and consumed accordingly.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2022

But their observations about love are such pabulum that a passer-by might mistake what their glimpsing for the opener of a "Saturday Night Live" short film parody.

From Salon • May 15, 2022

The Peabody Awards praised it for “offering the perfect counter to the enduring prevalence of toxic masculinity,” and the show’s Twitter account, which spouted pabulum about the decency of the human spirit, became extremely popular.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2021

A dozen years later, Epstein describes himself as “allergic” to business school slang, to the kind of pabulum espoused in leadership books.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2016

There may be some who regard it as in the nature of a free soup-house which caters to the appetite for mental pabulum more or less wholesome.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore