Sentence examples for dry and trite from inspiring English sources

Feeling skeptical, I assumed I would be getting another dry and trite lecture from yet another disconnected diplomat.

Avoid colloquialisms and trite neologisms.

"That piece was so cartoonish and trite.

She strikes Clyde as "so young and lithe and trite".

The line is "contrived and trite," Hughes pointed out.

It would be idle and trite to say that no right is absolute.

He's looking for something both sentimental and trite: a guardian angel.

From the stylebook: As a noun to mean fuss or controversy, flap is colloquial and trite.

This description has become hackneyed and trite (nor was it ever particularly accurate as a metaphor).

Again, the film is anti-capitalist in tone and trite in style.

The writer savaged the Postal Telegraph Building, using words like pretentious, exasperating, weak, empty and trite.