"bromidic sermons" "his remarks were trite and commonplace" "hackneyed phrases" "a stock answer" "repeating threadbare jokes" "parroting some timeworn axiom" "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
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用作形容词(adj.)
For the rest, she was a strong-minded woman; never said a weak or a trite thing.此外,她还是个意志坚强的女人,从来不说一句示弱或者平庸的话。
He ended his lecture with a trite morality.他以陈腐的说教结束了演讲。