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platitudinize

[ plat-i-tood-n-ahyz, -tyood- ]

verb (used without object)

platitudinized, platitudinizing.
  1. to utter platitudes.


platitudinize

/ ˌæɪˈːɪˌԲɪ /

verb

  1. intr to speak or write in platitudes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌپˈٳܻ徱ˌԾ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • i·ٳd·Ծ·tDz noun
  • i·ٳd·Ծe 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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