Translations for „platitudes“ in the English » German Dictionary

plati·tude [ˈplætɪtju:d, Am -t̬ətu:d, -tju:d] N pej

platitude

Platitüde f form

platitude

Plattheit f

to mouth platitudes

Platitüden von sich dat geben

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

flavourless platitudes

geschmacklose Platituden

to speak in platitudes

Allgemeinplätze verwenden

to mouth platitudes

Platitüden von sich dat geben

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

And, pretty soon, your endless prole-ier than thou platitudes start to ring a bit hollow.

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This means the goal is clear and unambiguous; without vagaries and platitudes.

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I find a cold-eyed, no-compromising health obsessive dismissive of platitudes such as "be comfortable with your weight".

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There will be much retrospection, showers of pious platitudes and a host of spurious heirs claiming ownership of the past.

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It takes the form of a dictionary of automatic thoughts and platitudes, self-contradictory and insipid.

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Her saccharine-sweet attitude and wide-eyed insincerity were hilarious, as was her super-mysterious hot pink notebook full of morale-boosting platitudes.

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The book is crammed with bragging and swaggering, pseudoscientific bombast, platitudes and vulgarities, and a great deal of sheer nonsense.

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Speaking almost entirely in platitudes pithy at first, profound as he goes on this grows into an extraordinarily well-written character, replete with flaws and relatability.

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However, he criticized the ponderous poetics... and platitudes for being mistaken as depth.

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It is a hodgepodge of unsupported assertions, irrelevant platitudes, and legalistic gibberish.

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