Old as Methuselah, in a way

Usage examples of trite.

Perhaps he could make something up that would be more interesting to hear about and less trite in the telling.

Not without getting trite, or cute, or moralistic - or falling into any number of the many pitfalls I foresaw with regard to this material.

You who offer nothing but asinine romps, improbable coincidences, mistaken identity, and trite screen-scenes featuring wayward husbands caught hiding from avenging wives, all this crammed into three frantic acts of babble and confusion!

All that trite crap about beautiful memories and not allowing something so perfect to degenerate into tedium.

I went back and trite to come over again, this time with a play-shovel I found in our old toybox in the attic.

They spend most of their time squirreled away in a basement or an attic with a word processor writing and rewriting, paranoid that the public might find their finished product silly, trite, or stupid.

Boston AA meetings are unusually long, an hour and a half instead of the national hour, but here they also have this formal break at about 45 minutes where everybody can grab a sandwich or Oreo and a sixth cup of coffee and stand around and chat, and bond, where people can pull their sponsors aside and confide some trite insight or emotional snafu that the sponsor can swiftly, privately validate but also place in the larger imperative context of the primary need not to absorb a Substance today, just today, no matter what happens.

What we said was trite and conventional, but the undertalk was deep and occasionally treacherous.

It is a just though trite observation, that victorious Rome was herself subdued by the arts of Greece.

He believed that only stupid people could define the failings and opportunities of this complex world by means of trite catchall mottos.

Hollywood, gullible Christers, and New Age loopy-doodles had combined to give them a trite, fairy-godfather image.

The real interests of the great industrialist or financier lie in cosmopolitan organization and the material development of the world commonweal, but his womenfolk pin flags all over him, and his sons are prepared to sacrifice themselves and all his business creations for the sake of trite splendours and Ruritanian romance.

But let us abandon the discussion of a principle now too trite, for humankind, at least in Europe, is satisfied that unlimited liberty is nowhere consistent with a properly-regulated state of society.

All too often writers tend to fall back on standard backgrounds that were fresh and exciting a couple of generations ago, but have become stale and trite today.

Blaring brass against a background of drumbeats, an attempt to make dreadfully trite melody sound important.