How to Use trite in a Sentence
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Both of them—to use a trite phrase—seem burdened by the past.
—Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
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But, the beauty of comics is that even in the quaint and the trite, the seeds of sagas are planted.
—Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2018
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There’s 11 guys out there at any one time to be trite about it.
—David Moore, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2021
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This said a lot more to me about courage than any of the trite dialogue did.
—Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 June 2017
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But don’t be fooled: The plot is trite; the cast, a basketful of stereotypes.
—Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
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Their trite belief: The right people weren’t in charge.
—Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2019
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To be completely trite, a whole new world has opened up for me.
—Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 Feb. 2023
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Kennedy’s words seemed obvious at the time, even trite.
—Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
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And the notion that those who come are stealing jobs away is also trite and false.
—Luis Enrique, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
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At the same time, the vocabulary isn’t trite, and there aren’t too many proper names.
—New York Times, 29 May 2022
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Her latest post finds the artist taking on what should, by now, be a trite format: the selfie.
—Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 15 May 2018
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It’s probably trite and silly to soome, a show about gay men who get in drag and walk down the runway.
—Lynette Rice, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2021
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This may sound trite, but all of the members of my household HATE to vacuum with the heat of a thousand suns.
—Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
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One more piece of advice: don’t listen to trite advice like this from founders.
—Rachel King, Fortune, 1 May 2022
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The art and artists do the heavy lifting while the curators, among them an Aussie comic, go trite and tiresome.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 June 2023
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The Emoji Movie might be a trite and uninspired, but emojis themselves are not.
—Clio Chang, New Republic, 31 July 2017
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This is not a trite think-piece to tell organizations when to speak and when not to speak on the high-stakes issues of the day.
—Anne Marie Malecha, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
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To say that the signs are everywhere is trite because the signs are everywhere.
—Sami J. Karam, National Review, 18 Aug. 2021
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Maybe there was something to this thing for me, in the new year — something trite but true about pushing out of my comfort zone.
—Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
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No, this wasn't some trite January matchup on a chilly Cleveland night.
—Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 16 Jan. 2018
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Comparisons to Paris can be trite, but in the case of Budapest—often called the Paris of the East—the analogy fits.
—Raul Barreneche, ELLE Decor, 22 June 2010
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The show’s premise, like its title, is both indistinct and somewhat trite.
—Judy Berman, Time, 18 Mar. 2022
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So, here are three modest gender-reveal ideas, all of which do away with the trite pink-or-blue conceit.
—Washington Post, 20 May 2021
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The desire to win this one for Hamlin might seem trite to cynics, but that desire is real.
—Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
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To cast such trite aspersions is like saying that women can’t have long hair the other side of 40.
—Longreads, 5 June 2019
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But there’s only so much director Derek Critzer can do to make up for bland music and trite lyrics.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 24 June 2019
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Khosla responded with a trite and rude retort that the company was fine.
—Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 21 Apr. 2017
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But whatever all-for-one, the-strength-of-the-wolf-is-the-pack mumbo jumbo that has held the Pac-12 together for the past year now feels painfully trite.
—Bill Oram, oregonlive, 27 July 2023
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The decision has been made, but the company owes more to St. Paul than a few transparently trite statements.
—Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 12 May 2024
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Their clichés about upstream septic-tank pollution flowing downstream feel trite.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 May 2024
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