trite remark
Example Sentences
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It is but repeating a trite remark to say that happiness depends more upon organization than upon circumstances, more upon what we are than upon what we have.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
"You work too hard," he said soberly, though he felt the inadequacy of the trite remark.
From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge
That is a trite remark; but I interpret it differently from everybody else.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
One by one the shams had yielded to his prying gaze, and, but too well, he knew the truth of Tom Moore's trite remark, "False the light on glory's plume!"
From The Midnight Passenger : a novel by Richard Savage
The arraignment of Dr. Slade, the spiritual medium, before a London magistrate, on a charge of vagrancy, suggests the rather trite remark that "history repeats itself."
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
