Platitude
The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.
A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.
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Platitude Quotations
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Don Marquis
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Platitude Translations
platitude in Swedish is banalitet
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