trite statements

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Every time the company puts out a new product it recycles the same trite statements about it.

Thus, in folk, trite statements of the obvious are celebrated in much the same way as non-deformed babies are celebrated by Mormons.

I'm not trying to make a trite statement about us.

As if that were not enough horror for this utterly decent family, his father then met a ghastly death by falling into a vat of boiling water, yet all Blunkett offers is the unbelievably trite statement that this "was a horrendous time in my life, a time I shall never forget".

With its post, Pinterest released the same trite statement we keep hearing from these tech companies.

"Whatever trite statement you want to say.

I have come to see the real meaning of that rather trite statement: a wife can either make or break a husband.

I am reminded of the trite statement that 'education is no panacea' for ignorance or hate but this is no longer a matter of education, demographics, nationalities, race, or indeed any of the reassuring demographic data with which we soothe ourselves as we try to breed order and insight into disorder and chaos closing in upon us.

I can feel heard, and maybe support someone else by providing humor or a trite likeminded story or statement.

He found the lyrics "cheesy and trite" but appreciated the "simple statements" in "Eight Melodies" and the "quirky and wonderful" "Magicant".

I say almost because, though the statement may seem trite, it is unassailable.