noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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empty political platitudes
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Mr Gringold droned on, mouthing the usual platitudes about motivation and self-reliance.
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The management tried to satisfy staff with some platitudes about the need to make sacrifices for the benefit of the company.
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The marriage counsellor could only offer us a string of empty platitudes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the foreign students sat together in the Student Union, at the same table, exchanging heavily accented platitudes.
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Charles took one look at the proffered platitudes, which he knew to be absurd, and set about writing an alternative.
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High-sounding jargon or pointless platitudes cut little ice when one is alert to the actual message being conveyed.
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I sense his slighted dignity and mouth some platitude about boys being boys the world over.
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Many transplant-zealots speak in slippery platitudes.
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That at least some of them do so is a platitude .
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Those who did believe me offered no solace; only sympathy and empty platitudes.
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What blessed relief from the platitudes.