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While a little long and a bit trite toward the end, it was exactly the creative change that Fashion Week needs.

The things Lindsay shows Lohan doing should be trite and calming.

Marriage is the best decision you can make; it sounds trite, but it really does complete a person, rounds you out.

The Daily Pic: A watercolor shows how the great painter mixed the radical and the trite.

Perhaps you are old-fashioned and have additional concerns that are a bit more naive, even trite.

Half an inch taller than Kerry, she fully merited the compliment designed by that trite apothegm, "a fine woman."

Much like general terms, which mean something or nothing, are expressions that have become trite and hackneyed.

How stale and trite the fleet of a Magellan to the adventurous soul who would circumnavigate the archipelagoes of the dead!

It is trite to observe that democracies are organized—if, indeed, they are organized at all—not for war but for peace.

What need to burden memory with imaginary statements, or to weary out one's sympathies on trite fictitious woes?

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On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trite, such as: banal, corny, dull, hackneyed, bathetic, and bromidic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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