The word "platitudinous" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is full of trivial or trite remarks, or to describe a remark that is trite or banal. For example: "His speech was full of platitudinous remarks that the audience had heard a million times before."
There are no plans for pollution-charging to cover private cars (only platitudinous incentives for electric cars), which, though individually cleaner than buses and lorries, are more plentiful and produce roughly similar amounts of muck in total.
Such events are usually remarkable only for their platitudinous euphoria, but a question from a BBC reporter suggesting that the record companies' oligopoly was tightening its control spoiled the party.
When, in a two-page advertisement placed in the Times last week, Mr Howard set out his "credo", a clumsy mixture of the platitudinous and the ambiguous, the newspaper editorials were unusually kind.
Every year since then, EU leaders have met in March to review progress and issue platitudinous statements of the "much has been achieved, but much remains to be done" variety.As it happens, quite a lot has indeed been done.
By long-standing tradition, bosses make platitudinous speeches, listen to lone dissidents with the air of psychiatric nurses towards patients and wait for their own proposals to be rubber-stamped by the proxy votes of obedient institutional investors.
Surely such a bunch of worthies most of them retired would simply produce yet another platitudinous report, doomed to gather dust.
He was alert to the "platitudinous babble" of von Ribbentrop, the star-struck love-words of Hitler's secretary and the coarseness, laced with Franconian intonations, of Julius Streicher, publisher of the vilely anti-Jewish Der Stürmer.
And, strangely, such platitudinous advice is not altogether unrealistic.
"I have great respect for the Muslim population of Syria," he told me, adding that he was very much aware of the small, hard-pressed Jewish minorities in places like Iran, and of other regional minorities like the Druze and the Alawites.On his watch, the religious-liberty debate will certainly not be platitudinous.
Platitudinous, yes, but also true.
The trouble is, hombre, there is only so much of this self-serving, platitudinous, ersatz soul-baring that can be absorbed in any one football silly season.
