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pious platitude

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Noun1.pious platitude - insincere talk about religion or morals
talk, talking - an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here"


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AaLike Pontius Pilate, they wash their hands of sixty years of associated guilt by reciting pious platitudes while concerned only with their own crumbling puny seats of power.
But again, yesterday, we heard those same pious platitudes, "They shall grow not old.
But we can safely ignore the pious platitudes of politicians clambering over each other for prime position on the puritanical bandwagon (pot/kettle, greenhouse/stones etc).
 
 
 
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