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(intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic..
He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.
If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source. But I need not platitudinize to an experienced and learned counsel.
The people in this show don't talk like normal people—they lecture, they argue, they negotiate, they strategize, they philosophize, they platitudinize, they deliver speeches about destiny, liberty, and bravery.
Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.
“It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized.
A modern campaign, not just in America, is so fine-tuned, so honed and platitudinised, that mistakes are the only way of bringing it into focus.
Use platitudinize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Platitudinize means (intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic..
Common synonyms include trivialize.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.
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