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

Well, at least a 10-minute look when one cuts out all of the promotional pabulum for the cartoon.

From Washington Times • Feb. 6, 2018

It’s actually a pretty easy issue to defuse: just churn out some pabulum about how running for president is difficult and you’re thinking about the future of the country and blah blah blah.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2015

This sort of pabulum is the norm, alas, not the exception.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2015

Before one has arrived at a discriminating age, he cannot sit down to every sort of literary pabulum regardless of consequences.

From Confessions of a Neurasthenic by Marrs, William Taylor