That is not just a platitude. I really mean it.
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Platitude
/ˈplatɪˌtjuːd/
Synonyms for "platitude" (61 found)
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Noun(3 words)
commonplace expressioncornfamiliar tunegeneral ideageneralizationgeneralized propositionglittering generalityhackneyed expressionhackneyed sayinginanityinsipiditylieu communlocus communismawkishnessmaxim
Related words (30)
Adjective(1 words)
most commonplace
old jokeold sawold songold storyphraseprosaicismprosaismproseproverbreiterationretold storyrubber stampsentimentalityshibbolethstereotyped sayingsweeping statementtagtired clichetrite sayingtriticism
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4 entriesbanal remarkmoralizing statementtrite observationuniversal claim
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6 entriesbanal platitudecliche platitudeempty platitudemoralizing platitudetrite platitudewell worn platitude
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15 total sentences available.
These poems might nearly all have been written by one man, were it possible for one man to vary from absolute platitude to something like genius, so homogeneous is their tone: everywhere do we meet the same simplicity of diction struggling with the same complication and subtlety of thought, the same abstract speculation strangely mingled with most individual and personal pathos.
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Beauty, I suppose, opens the heart, extends the consciousness. It is a platitude, of course.
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Semiramis was the first woman to invent eunuchs and women have had sympathy for them ever since; […] and women can tell them what they can't tell other men. And Ivor, suddenly cheered by laughing at his absurd platitudes, and finding himself by the door, was going from the room.
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