Any good platitudinarian will already have forestalled it. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference
He was damped to the skin by Mary Ann's platitudinarian style of conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Merely Mary Ann] Reference
These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science. From Wordnik.com. [What Social Classes Owe to Each Other] Reference
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 platitude double damned. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
Its sublimest flower is the American college president, well described by Dr. Veblen - a perambulating sycophant and platitudinarian, a gaudy mendicant and bounder, engaged all his life, not in the battle of ideas, the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge, but in the courting of rich donkeys and the entertainment of mobs. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
A platitudinarian peacefulness -- nay, a sort of beauty!. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
You have a respect for a political platitudinarian as insensible as an ox to everything he can't turn into political capital. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Deronda] Reference
Please be original, not platitudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [Donkey Kong] Reference
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