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Platitudinous

adjective
1.
Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality.  Synonyms: bromidic, corny, platitudinal.






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"Platitudinous" Quotes from Famous Books



... not called it a triumphal lunch, it might not have appeared so very different from any other women's lunch at the season of roses. Leslie herself, though, found in it the flavor of old-fashioned romance, just faintly platitudinous, in which poetic justice is done. Mrs. Foss, the more simple-minded organizer of it, felt that she should remember it as an occasion when she had risen to the level, placed the right cards in the fist of destiny, and created an event worthy to take rank at least with those ...
— Aurora the Magnificent • Gertrude Hall



Words linked to "Platitudinous" :   corny, platitude, unoriginal



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