trite

It might seem trite, but there is a sizeable group of Chelsea supporters who believe in the so-called curse.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

If that were an innovative idea, we’d have been worshipping at the heels of last year’s equally topical yet no less trite sci-fi horror “Companion.”

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

And while I won’t go so far as to use a trite phrase like, 40s are the new 30s, well…You catch my drift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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

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

There was a time when Craford used to seem to me the tritest spot in Europe, and the thought of Italy was luminous of everything romantic, of everything to be desired.

From The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland