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1856 ‘Trifle’ & ‘Editor’ Trifleton Papers iii. 31 ‘It is well,’ said I, platitudinizing in reply, ‘to be thankful for the sources of our amusement.’

1893 Pall Mall Mag. 2 351/2 He moves platitudinising and attitudinising through a play.

1971 Daily Tel. 11 Nov. 9/4 Kafka moralises, pontificates, platitudinises, has dramatic facial expressions—it's all a bit hard to take.

2002 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 24 Aug. b1 Politicians don't platitudinize about the glories of sheep-like loyalty.

1917 G. Saintsbury Hist. French Novel I. ii. 28 That the prose should have been prettified and platitudinised, decorated and diluted into the verse is a possibility which we know to be not only possible but likely.

1935 M. Schütze Acad. Illusions in Field of Lett. & Arts ii. xii. 248 The majority of the names appearing in histories of poetry-art and in collections are minor minds, who imitate, platitudinize, and typify in endless duplications the great conventions of their masters.

1979 A. Cicourel in C. C. Lemert Sociol. & Twilight of Man vii. 166 The platitude is apotheosized; the extraordinary is platitudinized.

1895 I. Zangwill Master 441 Art—the last of the rebels against the platitudinisation of life.

2003 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 5 Nov. 6 He is to be the One, the Friend, or, in our present state of irreparable platitudinisation, the Soulmate.

1888 Sat. Rev. 18 Feb. 179/1 The platform platitudinizers.

1960 College Eng. 21 493 Every man his own platitudinizer.

1999 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 5 July 16 I quote a report, in this newspaper, of her speech at yet another International Gathering of pious platitudinisers.