trite

It might seem trite, but there is a sizeable group of Chelsea supporters who believe in the so-called curse.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

They put their readers to sleep by deploying trite phrases in the passive voice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Though it seems trite to say it, the truth about politics and investing is somewhere in the middle.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

She found its themes trite, and its prose subpar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Good luck sounds so trite and pointless in the face of this.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

The resultant essay, titled “E Unibus Pluram,” took special pains not to descend into lazy “anti-TV paranoia,” “far cruder and triter than what the critics complain about.”

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2015

So central to our culture and so often mocked — made the emblem of television at its least imaginative and most imitative, at its tritest and tiredest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021

The “life lessons that our innocent hero learns may sound like the tritest of homilies,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2018

Maybe every writer is doomed to have their tritest sentence become their most-tweeted, but in Joan Didion’s case, it feels particularly unfair that “we tell ourselves stories in order to live” has become so ubiquitous.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2015

The tritest of all exercises in voyeuristic celebrity worship, that flimsy fold-up guide to the homes of actors and actresses represents the ultimate divide between the “haves” and “have-nots.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2015

"My dear!" he whispered, tritest and most unavoidable of expressions.

From Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells