platitudinous

How To Use platitudinous In A Sentence

• She is good reading always, however much we may sometimes pish and pshaw at the untimely poppings-in of the platitudes and crotchets (for he was that most abominable of things, a platitudinous crotcheteer) of Richard her father. The English Novel
• [98] Time out of mind it has been the habit of writers, both within the order and without, to treat Masonry as though it were a kind of agglomeration of archaic remains and platitudinous moralizings, made up of the heel-taps of Operative legend and the fag-ends of Occult lore. The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry
• (Presumably everyone accepts them taken platitudinously.) Warranted Christian Belief
• He is a master of platitudinous nonsensical mutterings meted out in a muttonheaded masterly display of the obvious.
• The panel did not investigate or report on actual availability, merely observing platitudinously: NAS: Assuring the Integrity of Research Data « Climate Audit
• Personally, he was an intellectual moralist, and more offending to him than platitudinous pomposity was the morality of those about him, which was a curious hotchpotch of the economic, the metaphysical, the sentimental, and the imitative. Chapter 29
• The robin, revelling in detail, chirping platitudinously, is Polonius to the life. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
• Yes, platitudinously but truly, politics make strange bedfellows. Gone with the Wind
• This now urgently requires leadership by personal example far beyond platitudinous inanities about 'free markets'.
• Saying ‘there are no easy answers’ is platitudinous waffle.