trite remark
Example Sentences
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Even the value of this trite remark was spoiled.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
It is a trite remark that diamonds can be polished only by diamond dust.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
"I did not think there could be any place in England so beautiful," she said by-and-by, when George disturbed her with some trite remark upon the scene.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Sylvie colored, and averted her eyes: then she gave herself a kind of mental shaking, and resolutely glanced back, uttering some rather trite remark.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
The arraignment of Dr. Slade, the spiritual medium, before a London magistrate, on a charge of vagrancy, suggests the rather trite remark that "history repeats itself."
From The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
