Sample Sentences for
trite
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    My own speculations were trite in comparison.  (source)
    trite = overly familiar
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    If you'll curtail your literary pursuits a moment I'll introduce you to my counterpart and Nemesis; I would be trite and say, 'to my better half,'  (source)
    trite = overfamiliar through overuse (stale, banal, hackneyed)
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    Few people realized that anagrams, despite being a trite modern amusement, had a rich history of sacred symbolism.  (source)
    trite = lacking impact because they are so familiar
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    Because it was an ending, no matter what Eric, the valedictorian, had to say about commencement meaning "beginning" and all the rest of the trite nonsense.  (source)
    trite = lacking impact
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    I cannot live without him, she heard herself whisper aloud in Polish, aware of the triteness of the thought but also of its absolute truth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Finding the tone inappropriate to the sentiment he repeated his command in the spaced and considered rhythm with which his old master, Doctor Dohmler, could cast significance on the tritest platitude.†  (source)
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    He nodded to himself as he drew off his trousers and stood up, saying tritely: —Redheaded women buck like goats.†  (source)
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    That was true no matter how trite it sounded.  (source)
    trite = without impact (lacking anything unusual or interesting)
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    It was the very triteness of the feelings and expressions that moved him most; he mistook Dudorov's reflection of prescribed feeling for a genuine expression of humanity.†  (source)
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    Acey grew up in Chicago, where both parents were teachers, and she began to do pen-and-ink sketches, she began to do West Indian collages pretty much in the tritest manner possible, according to her own account, and had a sexual adventure with a member of the Black-stone Rangers, a very sizable street gang, and eventually packed a bag and went to Los Angeles, where she married a professor of sociology and enrolled at Cal Arts and got a divorce and found her karma as a painter.†  (source)
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    I know it sounds trite considering all that you two have been through, but she needs a friend right now.  (source)
    trite = lacking impact
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    There was a certain triteness in these reflections: they were those habitual to young men on the approach of their wedding day.†  (source)
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    The sweetest story ever told—and the tritest.†  (source)
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