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platitudinous

[plat-i-tood-n-uhs, -tyood-] / ˌplæt ɪˈtud n əs, -ˈtjud- /


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Rivera could do only, perhaps, what he was good at: working, fulfilling commissions, and organizing human types and platitudinous dogma into impressively complex, large-scale compositions.

From Washington Post Aug. 25, 2022

On one occasion, Sir Philip was interrupted by committee chairman and Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who told him: "It sounds less credible every time you repeat it. It sounds platitudinous."

From BBC Dec. 7, 2021

The responsibility of a photographer is not only to capture these platitudinous concepts of truth and beauty in artmaking, or the ways in which a subject might see or imagine themselves to be.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2021

“It sounds platitudinous enough, but it isn’t, thanks to Hall’s tight yet modest prose,” our reviewer, John Kaag, wrote.

From New York Times Feb. 7, 2020

Its Olympian tone made it a perennial touchstone at those political occasions requiring platitudinous wisdom.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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