"platitudinize" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "platitudinizes",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "1894 July 24, “An Undenominational Mission: Outspokenness in the Pulpit”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 2011-10-07, page 5",
          "text": "He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, R. Austin Freeman, As a Thief in the Night, House of Stratus, published 2001, page 139",
          "text": "If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source. But I need not platitudinize to an experienced and learned counsel.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 February 20, Maxie Zeus, “Glass Fleet”, in www.tunezone.net, retrieved 2011-10-07",
          "text": "The people in this show don't talk like normal people—they lecture, they argue, they negotiate, they strategize, they philosophize, they platitudinize, they deliver speeches about destiny, liberty, and bravery.",
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        "To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic."
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        "(intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic."
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        {
          "ref": "1842, Solomon Ludwig Steinheim, “On the Perennial and the Ephemeral in Judaism”, in Daniel H. Frank et al., editors, The Jewish Philosophy Reader, published 2000, page 402",
          "text": "Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Philip Roth, Letting Go, Random House, published 1997",
          "text": "“It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized.",
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          "ref": "2008 April 25, Simon Jenkins, “The White House race is a catalogue of misspeaking”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2011-10-07",
          "text": "A modern campaign, not just in America, is so fine-tuned, so honed and platitudinised, that mistakes are the only way of bringing it into focus.",
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        "To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms."
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        "(transitive) To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms."
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      "word": "trivialize"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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          "ref": "1894 July 24, “An Undenominational Mission: Outspokenness in the Pulpit”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 2011-10-07, page 5",
          "text": "He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, R. Austin Freeman, As a Thief in the Night, House of Stratus, published 2001, page 139",
          "text": "If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source. But I need not platitudinize to an experienced and learned counsel.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2008 February 20, Maxie Zeus, “Glass Fleet”, in www.tunezone.net, retrieved 2011-10-07",
          "text": "The people in this show don't talk like normal people—they lecture, they argue, they negotiate, they strategize, they philosophize, they platitudinize, they deliver speeches about destiny, liberty, and bravery.",
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        "To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic."
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        "(intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic."
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          "ref": "1842, Solomon Ludwig Steinheim, “On the Perennial and the Ephemeral in Judaism”, in Daniel H. Frank et al., editors, The Jewish Philosophy Reader, published 2000, page 402",
          "text": "Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Philip Roth, Letting Go, Random House, published 1997",
          "text": "“It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2008 April 25, Simon Jenkins, “The White House race is a catalogue of misspeaking”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2011-10-07",
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        "To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms."
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        "(transitive) To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms."
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      "word": "trivialize"
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      "word": "platitudise"
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