platitudinous

Example Sentences

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Some might see that statement as platitudinous - obvious - but he's viewed by those I spoke to as having been a success at the big tech firm.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

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

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 begins after a brief, platitudinous monologue from Gadot, who may be on lockdown, but whose mind has been freed, bro.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 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