platitude

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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.

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Co-op meets rainbow bagels meets the 1970s, in this 2012 rebrand, They only spent £2k on this logo, and the Churchillesque platitude 'forward together' was dropped too. Source: Internet

Sitting in a conference room at Cruise’s warehouse-style office in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, Kan, sporting the startup uniform of jeans, T-shirt, and hoodie, matches that Valley platitude with another. Source: Internet

We cannot be mouthing the platitude of ‘diversification’ of the economy and continue to do nothing but hope on oil prices to rebound and expect anything to change in the country. Source: Internet

Maybe in other ways but for expressing a simple platitude that almost everyone subscribes to and agrees with? Source: Internet

Democracy, as they have reminded us, is a process - and sometimes a very difficult one - not just an empty platitude. Source: Internet

It is about the spotlight on Arts Everywhere, a hollow platitude that gives the school a façade of interest in the arts with zero actual commitment to this department," said studio art graduate student John DeKemper. Source: Internet

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