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Definition of Platitudinarian
1. Noun. A bore who makes excessive use of platitudes.
Definition of Platitudinarian
1. n. One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms.
Definition of Platitudinarian
1. Noun. One who uses many platitudes in speaking or writing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Platitudinarian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platitudinarian
Literary usage of Platitudinarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"... platitudinarian in matter and manner, one, indeed, the most proper and orthodox
young man might have envied. The paper was a disclaimer of liis earlier ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"you have a respect for a political platitudinarian as insensible as an ox to
everything he can't turn into political capital. You think his monumental ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice,
platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"BY A platitudinarian. NONE of ub like the crying of another person's baby. "
I won't " is a woman's Ultimatum. No man knows when Le goes to law, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice,
platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"As the platitudinarian is never tired of repeating, we can't have everything in
this checkered life. Should the man of business be chronically hard-up, ..."
7. The Works of Thomas Kyd by Thomas Kyd (1901)
"Nor could Kyd's platitudinarian strain of moralizing be more skilfully travestied
than in II. i. ..."
8. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"... platitudinarian in matter and manner, one, indeed, the most proper and orthodox
young man might have envied. The paper was a disclaimer of liis earlier ..."
9. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"you have a respect for a political platitudinarian as insensible as an ox to
everything he can't turn into political capital. You think his monumental ..."
10. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice,
platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and ..."
11. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"BY A platitudinarian. NONE of ub like the crying of another person's baby. "
I won't " is a woman's Ultimatum. No man knows when Le goes to law, ..."
12. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1884)
"These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice,
platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and ..."
13. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"As the platitudinarian is never tired of repeating, we can't have everything in
this checkered life. Should the man of business be chronically hard-up, ..."
14. The Works of Thomas Kyd by Thomas Kyd (1901)
"Nor could Kyd's platitudinarian strain of moralizing be more skilfully travestied
than in II. i. ..."
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