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How to sign: a trite or obvious remark
Similiar / Same: platitude, cliche, banality, bromide
Categories: comment, remark, truism
How to sign: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
"bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'";
Similiar / Same: hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, banal, shopworn, well-worn
How to sign: not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
"an unglamorous job greasing engines";
Similiar / Same: humdrum, unglamorous, unglamourous, prosaic
