Sentence examples for tedious and trite from inspiring English sources

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This is a word which has been on my personal list of banned words, the kind of neologism and slang that becomes instantly tedious and trite.

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Stock characters are quite boring and trite, but make a good starting place.

It is stuffed to the brim with fake peril, that tedious legacy of reality TV that is supposed to keep an audience hooked but is so overused and trite that it invites cynicism at every turn.

"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.

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.

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