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English to English adjective
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Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | | Example: bromidic sermons
his remarks were trite and commonplace
hackneyed phrases
a stock answer
repeating threadbare jokes
parroting some timeworn axiom
the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
source: wordnet30
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