Thesaurus / trite
FEEDBACKHow to use trite in a sentence
While perhaps trite to say, that purpose and meaning are way more important than go-karting, free food, or recess.
THE 50 BEST PLACES TO WORK IN 2021SMURGUIANOVEMBER 9, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEIt’s almost trite at this point to note the decade-worth of digital and e-commerce transformation that’s enveloped the marketing world over the last 16 months since the pandemic started.
MEDIA BUYING BRIEFING: SYNTHETIC EXPERIENCES OUTGROW THEIR NOVELTY STATUS AS THEY ATTRACT MORE BRANDSMICHAEL BÜRGIJUNE 14, 2021DIGIDAYIt might seem trite to say that in times of despair, we can look to the written word for solace.
A READING LIST TO CELEBRATE ASIAN AUTHORS, FROM MEMBERS OF TIME'S ASIAN COMMUNITYKARENA PHANMARCH 24, 2021TIMEInstead, Bly Manor ultimately seems to jettison all its carefully built characterizations in favor of a plot resolution that essentially happens completely offstage, to usher in an ending that feels hand-waved and trite.
NETFLIX’S THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR IS A CALM, LOVING STUDY IN HOW TO EXORCISE YOUR GHOSTSAJA ROMANOOCTOBER 9, 2020VOXThe game's rendering engine is incredibly beautiful, but the characters it renders are shallow, trite, and frequently downright hateful—and the storyline, at least for the first 15 hours, is pretty similar.
I PLAYED 15 HOURS OF BALDUR’S GATE 3 EARLY ACCESS, AND I WANT THEM BACKJIM SALTEROCTOBER 6, 2020ARS TECHNICAHalf an inch taller than Kerry, she fully merited the compliment designed by that trite apothegm, "a fine woman."
DOPESAX ROHMERMuch like general terms, which mean something or nothing, are expressions that have become trite and hackneyed.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERHow stale and trite the fleet of a Magellan to the adventurous soul who would circumnavigate the archipelagoes of the dead!
BEYONDHENRY SEWARD HUBBARDIt is trite to observe that democracies are organized—if, indeed, they are organized at all—not for war but for peace.
A TRAVELLER IN WAR-TIMEWINSTON CHURCHILLWhat need to burden memory with imaginary statements, or to weary out one's sympathies on trite fictitious woes?
THE COMPLETE PROSE WORKS OF MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPERMARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPERWORDS RELATED TO TRITE
- actual
- banal
- blah
- boring
- clean
- colorless
- common
- commonplace
- dead
- diddly
- drab
- dry
- dull
- everyday
- factual
- flat
- garden-variety
- hackneyed
- ho-hum
- humdrum
- irksome
- lackluster
- lifeless
- literal
- lowly
- lusterless
- matter-of-fact
- monotonous
- mundane
- nothing
- nowhere
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- plebeian
- practicable
- practical
- prose
- prosy
- routine
- square
- stale
- tame
- tedious
- trite
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninspiring
- vanilla
- vapid
- workaday
- yawn
- zero
- antiquated
- banal
- bent
- cliché
- cliché-ridden
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- corny
- dead
- drab
- dull
- dusty
- effete
- flat
- fusty
- hackneyed
- insipid
- like a dinosaur
- mawkish
- moth-eaten
- out
- passé
- past
- platitudinous
- repetitious
- shopworn
- stereotyped
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
- trite
- unoriginal
- well-worn
- worn-out
- yesterday's
- zestless
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