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platitudes
/ˈplætɪˌtudz/
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What does platitudes mean?
noun
- plural of platitude
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈplætɪˌtudz/
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It has led the former into egregious blunders, and has caused the latter to utter incredible platitudes.
The spell was broken, the key denied me And at length your flat clear voice beside me Mouthed cheerful clear flat platitudes.
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Even for his classroom he had no platitudes, no stock of professorial anecdotes.
Yet men continue to drug themselves with the opiate of optimism, or sink back upon the cushions of Christian resignation, their intellectual powers anaesthetized by cheerful platitudes.
I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday, with new labels stuck rakishly upon them.