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platitudinize
[ plat-i-tood-n-ahyz, -tyood- ]
platitudinize
/ ˌæɪˈːɪˌԲɪ /
verb
- intr to speak or write in platitudes
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Derived Forms
- ˌپˈٳܻ徱ˌԾ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms
- i·ٳd·Ծ·tDz noun
- i·ٳd·Ծe noun
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of platitudinize1
First recorded in 1880–85; platitudin(ous) + -ize
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Example Sentences
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Désir, 52, a bald and bespectacled consensus seeker, has been mocked as an “apparatchik” and chided for his party-loyalist platitudinizing—his “wooden tongue,” in the French phrase.
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"A Hoosier Holiday" is far more illuminating, despite its platitudinizing.
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Then Éugene Brieux, with his Y. M. C. A. platitudinizing, is greater than Molière, with his ethical agnosticism, his ironical determinism.
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Pope's letters are the literary exercises of a man platitudinizing about virtues he did not possess.
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Aspiring socially, she was reserved, pedantic, platitudinizing, thoroughly self-sufficient.
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