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verb
To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
utter platitudes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to
History
From platitude + -ize on analogy of other adjectives ending in -tudinize, from Latin -tūdin- + -ize, the oblique stem of -tūdō. Compare platitudinous.
