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Platitudinous

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plat·i·tude  (plt-td, -tyd)
n.
1. A trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. See Synonyms at cliché.
2. Lack of originality; triteness.

[French, from plat, flat, from Old French; see plate.]

plati·tudi·nous (-tdn-s, -tyd-), plati·tudi·nal (-tdn-l, -tyd-) adj.
plati·tudi·nous·ly adv.
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Adj.1.platitudinous - dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons"
unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham


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He winced, but Joan rattled on with the platitudinous originality of youth.
Higginbotham such a dinner was advertisement of his worldly achievement and prosperity, and he honored it by delivering platitudinous sermonettes upon American institutions and the opportunity said institutions gave to any hard-working man to rise - the rise, in his case, which he pointed out unfailingly, being from a grocer's clerk to the ownership of Higginbotham's Cash Store.
 
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