triteness
Example Sentences
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Some of those abilities—communication, critical thinking—are oft-repeated to the point of triteness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
The triteness makes us uncertain how much of his impassioned purging is the truth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024
The secret is poised somewhere between triteness and disarming simplicity.
From New York Times • May 5, 2022
But the conceit quickly gives way to redundancy and triteness, and we’re left trying to shake the image of Stephen Covey wearing a leather tunic with a feather in his cap.
From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2020
Apart from its triteness and emptiness, the paragraph above is weak because of the structure of its sentences, with their mechanical symmetry and sing-song.
From A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
