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Definition of platitude in English: platitudenoun ˈplatɪtjuːdˈplædəˌt(j)ud A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful. 陈词滥调，老生常谈 she began uttering liberal platitudes 她开始念叨起自由主义的陈词滥调。 Example sentencesExamples - It is not enough for Blair simply to utter platitudes.
- This year more than ever, the hack politician's laziest platitude is true: ‘This election is about the future.’
- I agree with Deacon that the platitude that liberals think ‘people are basically good,’ which we all learned in our college government courses, is out of date.
- So says The Knife, who, as their name suggests, are not a conventional band content to offer vacuous platitudes served on a diet of mediocrity.
- But members of the Omagh victims' group are not content with such platitudes.
- That failure could be his Achilles' heel, for whenever he addresses environmental activist groups he offers platitudes, but little promise of action.
- The other two are gratuities, and while one could argue both gratuities and platitudes are pleasantries, that doesn't make one the other.
- They seek to dissolve all concrete issues of history, politics and economics into the ethereal mists of moral platitudes.
- Thinking that a few motivational platitudes and clichés will save them, the rest of the band plod on, uninspired and surrounded by yes men.
- His answer to all these questions is the pious platitude, ‘one standard of citizenship’.
- McDonnell's yet-to-be-delivered statement opens with self-serving platitudes and praise for the committee.
- ‘I'm proud of my guys,’ Valentine, the Mets' manager said, offering the platitudes of a loser.
- One critic once said that George Eliot was the only English writer who was into sermonising and moral platitudes.
- Gone are (some of) the moral platitudes, and in their place are actual critiques and questions.
- Here, in one neat package, we have all the liberal platitudes.
- Its unpleasantness must not be buried in moral and philosophical platitudes.
- Cliched platitudes about derby matches may be easy enough to pick up, but there are still occasional communication difficulties between player and manager.
- It's pretty much downhill from there, with everyone speaking in moral platitudes and Hanks looking troubled.
- Mondale just kept serving up affable liberal platitudes.
- No slippery politician was going to give me the kind of straight talk I was looking for, but only politicians and platitudes were on offer.
- They should stop playing to the public gallery by mouthing platitudes and begin thinking seriously about the very nature of crime and punishment.
Synonyms cliché, truism, commonplace, hackneyed/trite/banal/overworked saying, banality, old chestnut bromide, inanity, tag
OriginEarly 19th century: from French, from plat 'flat'. Rhymesattitude, beatitude, gratitude, latitude Definition of platitude in US English: platitudenounˈpladəˌt(y)o͞odˈplædəˌt(j)ud A remark or statement, especially one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful. 陈词滥调，老生常谈 she began uttering liberal platitudes 她开始念叨起自由主义的陈词滥调。 Example sentencesExamples - It's pretty much downhill from there, with everyone speaking in moral platitudes and Hanks looking troubled.
- But members of the Omagh victims' group are not content with such platitudes.
- Here, in one neat package, we have all the liberal platitudes.
- McDonnell's yet-to-be-delivered statement opens with self-serving platitudes and praise for the committee.
- Gone are (some of) the moral platitudes, and in their place are actual critiques and questions.
- His answer to all these questions is the pious platitude, ‘one standard of citizenship’.
- Cliched platitudes about derby matches may be easy enough to pick up, but there are still occasional communication difficulties between player and manager.
- So says The Knife, who, as their name suggests, are not a conventional band content to offer vacuous platitudes served on a diet of mediocrity.
- Mondale just kept serving up affable liberal platitudes.
- One critic once said that George Eliot was the only English writer who was into sermonising and moral platitudes.
- The other two are gratuities, and while one could argue both gratuities and platitudes are pleasantries, that doesn't make one the other.
- No slippery politician was going to give me the kind of straight talk I was looking for, but only politicians and platitudes were on offer.
- ‘I'm proud of my guys,’ Valentine, the Mets' manager said, offering the platitudes of a loser.
- Thinking that a few motivational platitudes and clichés will save them, the rest of the band plod on, uninspired and surrounded by yes men.
- Its unpleasantness must not be buried in moral and philosophical platitudes.
- They seek to dissolve all concrete issues of history, politics and economics into the ethereal mists of moral platitudes.
- They should stop playing to the public gallery by mouthing platitudes and begin thinking seriously about the very nature of crime and punishment.
- That failure could be his Achilles' heel, for whenever he addresses environmental activist groups he offers platitudes, but little promise of action.
- I agree with Deacon that the platitude that liberals think ‘people are basically good,’ which we all learned in our college government courses, is out of date.
- It is not enough for Blair simply to utter platitudes.
- This year more than ever, the hack politician's laziest platitude is true: ‘This election is about the future.’
Synonyms cliché, truism, commonplace, banal saying, hackneyed saying, overworked saying, trite saying, banality, old chestnut
OriginEarly 19th century: from French, from plat ‘flat’. |