(a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
(2) "That might sound trite, but it does feel that way.
(3) Giles Oakley London • In conception and format, it was trite – while being undeservedly pompous and self-esteeming.
(4) It sounds trite now, but I was born in '58, so when I was seven or eight the city [of Liverpool] was awash with music.
(5) Inside that trite sentence, “We need to figure out how to make this work for everyone,” hides the skeleton of a monster.
(6) The three-day Baltimore retreat exposed discord within the ranks, but largely the same leadership espoused trite slogans that long predated Trump.
(7) Although it might seem trite to point out that tissue sampling is a potential source of experimental error, this survey disclosed that even experienced investigators in fact often work with cartilage that is contaminated by non-cartilaginous tissue of which they were unaware.
(8) I should, by rights, have produced a 300-word listicle containing trite, observational humour about self-service checkouts, but disappointingly, Buzzfeed got there first .
(9) A case in point is The Black Eyed Peas song Where Is The Love?, which when heard on the radio can seem a bit trite in its appeal for pan-global understanding, but in this context chimed perfectly with the need for clear, emphatic statements following trauma.
(10) The guest list pass from the 3rdeyegirl gig is still stuck fast to the inside of my jacket To say Prince was a rare figure, even in the glorified secure unit that is pop, is a little trite.
(11) Over the past few years of recession and regression, it has become a trite truism of European politics that you can't go wrong going to the right.
(12) These relations are in reality, not just as a trite phrase, a potential "win-win situation".
(13) I also wanted to slightly complicate rather than clarify the Nick situation because it’s so easy to come up with trite answers – that he came from a stuffy, upper-middle-class background, nobody understood him.
(14) To say it is a victory for hope may sound trite and cliched, but it is really the only explanation for what has occurred.
(15) In the case of Podemos, repeatedly attacking la casta (the elites) may seem simple or trite on paper, as some have argued, but expressing your disavowal in the context of Spain’s domination by a corrupt, unreformable “regime of 78” (the year of the post-Franco constitution) which is in thrall to the troika and their friends in the bailed-out banks, as well as 40 years of Francoist patriarchy before that, becomes potentially transcendent.
(16) "It is just not good enough to give a trite phrase saying we will learn lessons if you don't learn the lessons and if you don't make sure on a regular basis that the lessons have filtered down to your officers.
(17) He told the BBC: "I wasn't having a go at multiculturalism itself, I was having a go at the rather trite way, frankly, it was represented in the opening ceremony.
(18) For whose benefit are those early Sunday morning photos of piles of finished marking accompanied by a trite, self-congratulatory message?
(19) I have read it three times to satisfy myself that there is nothing trivial, trite or ridiculous about it.
(20) Inside that trite sentence, 'We need to figure out how to make this work for everyone,' hides the skeleton of a monster I disagree that the old way is better.
Write
Definition:
(v. t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
(v. t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
(v. t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
(v. t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
(v. t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
(v. i.) To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
(v. i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
(v. i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
(v. i.) To compose or send letters.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(2) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(3) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(4) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(5) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
(6) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(7) They are about to use a newer version to write prescriptions and office visit notes and to find general medical and patient-specific information.
(8) She said a referendum was off the table for this general election but, pressed on whether it would be in the SNP manifesto for 2016, she responded: “We will write that manifesto when we get there.
(9) An important step in instrument development is writing the items that are derived from concept analysis and validation.
(10) The authors write: “In the wake of the financial crisis, central banks accumulated large numbers of new responsibilities, often in an ad hoc way.
(11) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
(12) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
(13) Kang Hyun-kyung writes for the Korea Times, not the Korean Herald.
(14) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(15) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(16) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
(17) David Rothkopf, writing in Foreign Policy, is similarly sceptical. "
(18) The existence is therefore proposed of some neural mechanism that controls the higher cerebral function of writing via the thalamus.
(19) The postulated deficit is contrasted to the hypothesis of impairment to the lexical-semantic component, required to explain performance by brain-damaged subjects described elsewhere who make seemingly identical types of oral production errors to those of RGB and HW, but, in addition, make comparable errors in writing and comprehension tasks.
(20) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.