Definition of Platitude

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Definition of Platitude
	Platitude The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace. Related Definitions: Being, Commonness, Commonplace, Dull, Flat, Ideas, Insipid, Is, Language, Of, Or, Quality, Remark, Staleness, State, The, Thin, Thought, Trite, Truism, Weak, Which

Platitude Quotations

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
H. L. Mencken

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
Don Marquis

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Stanley Baldwin

Platitude Translations

platitude in Swedish is banalitet

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