trite

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

But when Tony leaves for the day and is left to his own devices in Provincetown, the movie falls hard into all of the trite trappings of your average biopic.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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

Stocks, indexes, and call-option implied volatility are advancing to ever-higher highs, despite innumerable risks that are almost too trite to mention.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

In books and movies they say, “Let’s talk about you,” or, “Tell me all about yourself”—but that is when they first meet, and seems trite anyway.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

So central to our culture and so often mocked — made the emblem of television at its least imaginative and most imitative, at its tritest and tiredest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2021

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 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