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trite adjective banal, boring, bromidic, common, commonplace, conventional, dull, familiar, hackneyed, known, much used, oft repeated, old, ordinary, overused, platitudinous, prosaic, proverbial, routine, run of the mill, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stock, tedious, threadbare, too familiar, uncreative, unexciting, unimaginative, unoriginal, used, wearisome, well-known, widely known, worn, worn out See also: inexpressive, lifeless, mediocre, mundane, nondescript, ordinary, pedestrian, prosaic, stale How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| That may sound an inflated or pretentious ambition, but it gives rise to an extraordinary variety of narratives as he ventures toward the doleful, if not tragic, heart of his vision, and it is tempered always by the powers of his diction, which can give savor to many of the triter passages ("humor is the salt of the tales," he said in a late entry in his diary). |
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