Sentence examples for trite word from inspiring English sources

Asked if the problems were merely paperwork, he responded, "Paperwork, that's kind of a trite word".

So I've lived around survivors my whole life, but for one who lives with it in the present so much, 'moving' is such a trite word for what it was like to meet him.

Had poor Kilmer never published anything besides "Trees," the modernist intelligentsia would still have pilloried him for its 80 trite words alone.

As for the guilt that overwhelmed her, a few trite words from a parson would not assuage it, nor indeed would a hurried, priestly absolution.

To put in trite words: were there a will, there would be a way.

The new songs that push that subtext out front — which include the album's singles, the ballad "Brand New Me" (one of three self-actualizing, semi-autobiographical narratives written with the Scottish songwriter Emeli Sandé) and the preening title song, laid over a drum thwack based on Billy Squier's "The Big Beat" — quickly grow trite, in words and music.

It may be trite, but the word novel - literally meaning new - implies nothing of the sort.

How could this, all so — "trite" was the word — have given any of them either pain or joy?

The simple nostalgia of "Inglewood," the tired capitulation of "Perfect Word," the trite metaphor of "Heaven": they all faded quickly.

A subplot about a suicidal gay friend of Biscuit's seems to come out of almost nowhere, as does a story about a dying woman who summons Biscuit to her bedside to make a clutch of trite pronouncements ("Our words and actions are a matter of choice, and they will always have consequences") and to advise him to always carry condoms.

This is often perceived as the hardest part, as you don't want to be cliche or trite in your words.