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Definition of "platitudinize" []

  • To use platitudes in speaking or writing. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "platitudinize" in a sentence
  • "His voice, according to Sadd, was "not good enough and not bad enough" to settle his fate, so he continued with the singing lessons he couldn't afford and, as I would platitudinize to his father, "after all, it's his life.""
  • "I could platitudinize like that (rather badly) in my 2nd-Grade essays."
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