platitude
a trite or overused statement presented as if it were original
Word origin: From French plat, flat or dull.
Platitude in a sentence
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The speech was a string of platitudes that offered no real guidance.
The keynote dissolved into platitudes about teamwork and never addressed the actual crisis.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.
Using “platitude” well
A platitude is a stale truism offered as if it were fresh wisdom; the word implies the speaker is being trite or evasive.
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