platitudinize

[ plat-i-tood-n-ahyz, -tyood- ]

verb (used without object)

, plat·i·tu·di·nized, plat·i·tu·di·niz·ing.

1. to utter platitudes.

platitudinize

/ ˌplætɪˈtjuːdɪˌnaɪz /

verb

1. intr to speak or write in platitudes

Derived Forms

• ˌplatiˈtudiˌnizer, noun

Other Words From

• plati·tudi·ni·zation noun
• plati·tudi·nizer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of platitudinize¹

First recorded in 1880–85; platitudin(ous) + -ize

Example Sentences

Désir, 52, a bald and bespectacled consensus seeker, has been mocked as an “apparatchik” and chided for his party-loyalist platitudinizing—his “wooden tongue,” in the French phrase.

From Newsweek

"A Hoosier Holiday" is far more illuminating, despite its platitudinizing.

From Project Gutenberg

Then Éugene Brieux, with his Y. M. C. A. platitudinizing, is greater than Molière, with his ethical agnosticism, his ironical determinism.

From Project Gutenberg

Pope's letters are the literary exercises of a man platitudinizing about virtues he did not possess.

From Project Gutenberg

Aspiring socially, she was reserved, pedantic, platitudinizing, thoroughly self-sufficient.

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