Thesaurus / triteness
FEEDBACKHow to use triteness in a sentence
He grimaced at the triteness of the words, at the same time realizing that a basic truth lurked there.
DEATHWORLDHARRY HARRISONThe meagerness and triteness of the music and piece astonished me.
RECORDS OF A GIRLHOODFRANCES ANN KEMBLEOur minds become easily deadened to its real import, and the examples we cite in illustration of it have an air of triteness.
THE IDEA OF GOD AS AFFECTED BY MODERN KNOWLEDGEJOHN FISKEMrs. Weaver made this latter announcement with an air of triumph in its triteness.
THE WIZARD'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIESMARGARET COLLIER GRAHAMDon Luis Perenna had begun to read in emphatic tones, bringing out the imbecility of the words and the triteness of the rhythm.
THE SECRET OF SAREKMAURICE LEBLANCIts mention has already passed into triteness in verse, so inevitably have poets felt the sacred charm of the hour.
BITS ABOUT HOME MATTERSHELEN HUNT JACKSONFor he has accomplished the difficult and perilous feat of writing frankly without obviousness, simply without triteness.
EDWARD MACDOWELLLAWRENCE GILMANStill, some of them are so imaginative and quaint that they should be rescued from triteness and made classic.
MENTONE, CAIRO, AND CORFUCONSTANCE FENIMORE WOOLSONThe older man repressed a smile at the triteness of the speech, which is that usually educed from every new beholder of the scene.
THE BOY WITH THE U. S. SURVEYFRANCIS ROLT-WHEELERBaldi is diffuse; and this conspires with the triteness of his matter to render the poem somewhat uninteresting.
INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF EUROPE IN THE FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES, VOL. 1HENRY HALLAMWORDS RELATED TO TRITENESS
- banality
- boiler plate
- bromide
- buzzword
- chestnut
- cliché
- commonplace
- corn
- evenness
- familiar tune
- flatness
- hackneyed saying
- high camp
- hokum
- inanity
- insipidity
- monotony
- motto
- old chestnut
- old story
- potboiler
- prosaicism
- proverb
- saw
- shibboleth
- stereotype
- tag
- trite remark
- triteness
- triviality
- truism
- vapidity
- verbiage
- banalities
- boiler plates
- bromides
- buzzwords
- chestnuts
- clichés
- commonplaces
- corns
- evenness
- familiar tunes
- flatnesses
- hackneyed sayings
- high camps
- hokums
- inanity
- insipidities
- monotony
- mottoes
- old chestnuts
- old stories
- potboilers
- prosaicisms
- proverbs
- saws
- shibboleths
- stereotypes
- tags
- trite remarks
- triteness
- trivialities
- truisms
- vapidity
- verbiage
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