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Definition of Platitudinize
1. Verb. Utter platitudes. "The candidate platitudinized and bored the audience"
Definition of Platitudinize
1. v. i. To utter platitudes or truisms.
Definition of Platitudinize
1. Verb. (intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Platitudinize
1. [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platitudinize
Literary usage of Platitudinize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1875)
"It was his happiness, however, to platitudinize—it was his vocation to platitudinize,
and we must not altogether grumble that things are as they are. ..."
2. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"He might dodder and dote, platitudinize and pot-boil; but, once convinced, the
dull but honest British intelligence could not be shaken. ..."
3. The New Teaching by John Adams (1918)
"With very many physical training is still regarded in the same light as voluntary
rationing, an excellent subject to talk and platitudinize about, ..."
4. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1875)
"It was his happiness, however, to platitudinize—it was his vocation to platitudinize,
and we must not altogether grumble that things are as they are. ..."
5. European Dramatists by Archibald Henderson (1913)
"He might dodder and dote, platitudinize and pot-boil; but, once convinced, the
dull but honest British intelligence could not be shaken. ..."
6. The New Teaching by John Adams (1918)
"With very many physical training is still regarded in the same light as voluntary
rationing, an excellent subject to talk and platitudinize about, ..."
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