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adjective

trite

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

In a sentence

Six example sentences with trite, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every graduation speech ends with the same trite image of a door opening onto an unwritten page.

    Literature

  • The chorus rhymes fire with desire, a pairing so trite that reviewers stopped mentioning it years ago.

    Music

  • A trite montage of the couple painting a kitchen tells the audience nothing it had not guessed already.

    Movies

  • The mission statement was trite, promising to delight customers and empower teams in words every rival had used already.

    Business

  • The candidate's speech leaned on trite phrases about hard-working families, and the hall applauded from habit rather than feeling.

    Politics

  • The pitch deck opened with the trite line about changing the world, and two investors reached for their phones.

    Startups

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