trite

Fanning adds that she is genuinely honored by the nominations, no matter how trite it may sound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Yes, it’s trite, but most clichés have an element of truth.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

Describing a result as a 'victory for football' might seem like a trite cliche - but you won't find many neutrals disagreeing with that description of Spain's win in the 2026 World Cup final.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

If Ms. Orton sang like her 19-year-old self, had the songs been tight constructions manicured by a hired-gun songwriter, had her insights felt unearned, such a declaration could have come across as trite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Only one viewer was rapt, leaning forward in her seat, nodding at each trite sentiment, smiling while dabbing at wet eyes.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

The resultant essay, titled “E Unibus Pluram,” took special pains not to descend into lazy “anti-TV paranoia,” “far cruder and triter than what the critics complain about.”

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2015

The “life lessons that our innocent hero learns may sound like the tritest of homilies,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2018

I ask her the tritest question of them all next – what advice would you give to others who are struggling?

From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2018

The tritest way is that we get to inhabit other lands, other customs, other personalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2016

The tritest of all exercises in voyeuristic celebrity worship, that flimsy fold-up guide to the homes of actors and actresses represents the ultimate divide between the “haves” and “have-nots.”

From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2015

He listened to the tritest saying that fell from the lips of our extraordinary companion with devotional rapture, and secretly took down notes of his conversation.

From The Hungry Stones and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore