trite
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Fanning adds that she is genuinely honored by the nominations, no matter how trite it may sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But when Tony leaves for the day and is left to his own devices in Provincetown, the movie falls hard into all of the trite trappings of your average biopic.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Describing a result as a 'victory for football' might seem like a trite cliche - but you won't find many neutrals disagreeing with that description of Spain's win in the 2026 World Cup final.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
If Ms. Orton sang like her 19-year-old self, had the songs been tight constructions manicured by a hired-gun songwriter, had her insights felt unearned, such a declaration could have come across as trite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
He doesn’t say it to me anymore because Mom told him it was trite.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal 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
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
The tritest way is that we get to inhabit other lands, other customs, other personalities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
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
It is one of the tritest of truisms that human intelligences of a simple order are very literal.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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