banalness, commonness, corn, fustiness, locus communis, old song, prosaicism, retold story, staleness, triteness, unoriginality
Definitionn. a trite or obvious remark
Last update: August 10, 2015
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Knapp's worst banality is to suggest that he 'invented nothing.' [Please select]
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The banality of this observation was mitigated by the feeling she threw into it. [Please select]
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And then he went on with complete banality, "You have never met the right man." [Please select]
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It presented itself now to his mind as a peculiarly aggravating banality. [Please select]
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He did not have to commit the banality of reminding them of this conviction of his at their own tables; he had sufficient humour and penetration to credit them with knowing it. [Please select]
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As everyone knows, the motion-picture drama has been a tawdry thing for the most part--either a rehash of old stage plays, novels, and short stories, or else mediocre "originalities" that epitomized banality. [Please select]
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