platitudinarian

[ plat-i-tood-n-air-ee-uhn, -tyood- ]

noun

1. a person who frequently or habitually utters platitudes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of platitudinarian¹

1850–55; platitudin(ous) + -arian, perhaps on the model of latitudinarian

Example Sentences

You don't copy, as a rule; you're original, and I make my bow to you; but in what you said you are copying the platitudinarians.

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Those who fight shy of Maeterlinck because they credit the report, sufficiently widespread, that he is a platitudinarian, might be advised to sample him in this essay.

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I'm sending a few things from Hearst's newspapers—written by the slangers, dialecters and platitudinarians of the staff, and by some of the swine among the readers.

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We see, too, constantly, how thin is the barrier separating the chief Anglo-Saxon novelists and playwrights from the pasture of the platitudinarian.

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These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science.

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