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Platitudinize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic. intransitive

    "He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences."

  2. 2
    utter platitudes wordnet
  3. 3
    To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms. transitive

    "Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation."

Etymology

From platitude + -in- + -ize.

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