trite

(trīt)

adj. trit·er, trit·est

Not evoking interest because of overuse or repetition; hackneyed.

[Latin trītus, from past participle of terere, to wear out; see terə- in Indo-European roots.]

trite′ly adv.

trite′ness n.

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Adv.

tritely - in a trite manner; "tritely expressed emotions"

Translations

بابْتِذال

otřele

klichéagtigt

abgedroschen

banalement

elcsépelten

á útslitinn hátt

banalt

banálne

bayatlamış şekilde

陈腐地

tritely

[ˈtraɪtlɪ] ADV → con falta de originalidad

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tritely

adv a tritely obvious remark → eine Binsenweisheit; nobody is perfect, he said tritely → er machte die banale Bemerkung: niemand ist vollkommen

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trite

(trait) adjective

(of a remark, saying etc) already said in exactly the same way so often that it no longer has any worth, effectiveness etc. His poetry is full of trite descriptions of nature.

ˈtritely adverb

ˈtriteness noun

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References in classic literature

Moreover, Richardson often goes far and tritely out of his way in his preaching.

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has been destroyed: But 1 think not--I knew her well--She was a woman of business and could not be charged with any such mawkish inattention as to suffer that of value to be wasted or destroyed.--Let me tritely add she was in company always lively; never theatrically overbearing: apposite in remark; one, that it might be expected, would, as she did, sustain the character of Mrs.

RICH'S REGISTER--THE CHATSWORTH VOLUME

Second, and somewhat tritely, an inability to find an argument doesn't mean either that no such argument exists or that the conclusion to be reached isn't true.

DETACHED STATEMENTS

It is really one of the occasions where the often tritely talked about "win-win" actually applies.

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I tritely return to the Golden Rule--"do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Could it really be that simple?

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Indeed, one might say that there are two possible ways out of Nietzsche (whom I see, tritely no doubt, as the most prone historical icon of the death of a meta-narrative, humanism): one being the abstract, ratiocinative prose of Beckett, where the patterns and the recursions, the vertiginous "technique" are the keystone of an almost Judaic art; the other, the way of empathy and concretion, being the highly expressive telltale mosaics of Miller.

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With these short bursts we were able to obtain structural information about the enzyme before it vaporized through radiation damage in what I tritely refer to as 'Hit and Run' serial crystallography."

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Even the tritely titled "Long Live Rock & Roll," with its folk appeal, has got something going for it.

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This was--to put it as tritely as the opening sentence of this review--an accident waiting to happen.

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After reading the briefing on ' Zanzarim,' Boyd has Bond tritely remark, " It was like that old Chinese curse: ' May you live in interesting times' -- reconfigured as ' May vast reserves of oil be discovered in your country.'" Much later when he realises how true his words end up being, an almost contrite Bond admits ( to himself) that " sometimes the sheer candid ruthlessness of absolute power did shake you up somewhat." Fortunately, this moralising -- conceivably inspired by Boyd's childhood memories of living on the ' dark continent' while the West meddled in the Biafran war -- is only limited to certain portions of the narrative.

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French writer and philosopher, Andre Gide said tritely: "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore".

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