Both Uses
banal
in
Misery, by Stephen King
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- such banalities as "You look so good I could just eat you up" ...
Chpt 2 *banalities = things that are uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
- This comment, which would once have struck him as in a league with such banalities as You look so good I could just eat you up now seemed not banal at all.†
Chpt 2banal = uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusual
Definitions:
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(1)
(banal) uninteresting due to a lack of anything original or unusualPronunciation: Banal is correctly pronounced differently by various educated speakers of American English.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)