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n. - A bore who makes excessive use of trite or obvious remarks

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Usage examples (8)
  • Any good platitudinarian will already have forestalled it.
  • He was damped to the skin by Mary Ann's platitudinarian style of conversation.
  • These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science.
  • The roots of each one of them are in platitude; the roots of every effective stage-play are in platitude; that a dramatist is inevitably a platitudinarian is itself a...
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