Example sentences for: trite

How can you use “trite” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Others find the characters' nihilistic rants merely trite and their sexcapades--a 14-year-old begs to be sodomized with knives--disgusting.

  • In this poem, he sees divine grandeur not simply in a trite vision of "nature," but in nature as human nature affects it, too: industrial images such as shaking metal foil or crushed oil embody the grandeur.

  • In the New Republic , James Wood calls Toni Morrison's Paradise trite and sentimental: "It forces magic and pure rhapsodies on its characters like a demented anesthetist bullying patients with laughing gas."

  • Culturebox's first thought on reading Diana: In Search of Herself , Sally Bedell Smith's deliriously mean-spirited (though boringly written) catalog of all the ways the late fairy-tale princess turns out to have been troubled, trite, and exasperating, is that the British public didn't get its money's worth from the girl.

  • McNally's real offense is invoking a great theme and an all-important principle for something as trite and banal as this.


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