How to Use trite in a Sentence

trite

adjective

• That argument has become trite.
• Both of them—to use a trite phrase—seem burdened by the past.
  — Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2017
• But, the beauty of comics is that even in the quaint and the trite, the seeds of sagas are planted.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2018
• There’s 11 guys out there at any one time to be trite about it.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2021
• This said a lot more to me about courage than any of the trite dialogue did.
  — Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 June 2017
• But don’t be fooled: The plot is trite; the cast, a basketful of stereotypes.
  — Ilan Stavans, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• Their trite belief: The right people weren’t in charge.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 13 Sep. 2019
• To be completely trite, a whole new world has opened up for me.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 2 Feb. 2023
• Kennedy’s words seemed obvious at the time, even trite.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• And the notion that those who come are stealing jobs away is also trite and false.
  — Luis Enrique, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
• At the same time, the vocabulary isn’t trite, and there aren’t too many proper names.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2022
• Her latest post finds the artist taking on what should, by now, be a trite format: the selfie.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 15 May 2018
• It’s probably trite and silly to soome, a show about gay men who get in drag and walk down the runway.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• This may sound trite, but all of the members of my household HATE to vacuum with the heat of a thousand suns.
  — Amy Dickinson, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
• One more piece of advice: don’t listen to trite advice like this from founders.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 1 May 2022
• The art and artists do the heavy lifting while the curators, among them an Aussie comic, go trite and tiresome.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 15 June 2023
• The Emoji Movie might be a trite and uninspired, but emojis themselves are not.
  — Clio Chang, New Republic, 31 July 2017
• This is not a trite think-piece to tell organizations when to speak and when not to speak on the high-stakes issues of the day.
  — Anne Marie Malecha, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• To say that the signs are everywhere is trite because the signs are everywhere.
  — Sami J. Karam, National Review, 18 Aug. 2021
• Finding all of the must-sees in an enormous pile of skippable spots is, to be trite, like finding a needle in a haystack.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 June 2024
• Maybe there was something to this thing for me, in the new year — something trite but true about pushing out of my comfort zone.
  — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
• No, this wasn't some trite January matchup on a chilly Cleveland night.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Comparisons to Paris can be trite, but in the case of Budapest—often called the Paris of the East—the analogy fits.
  — Raul Barreneche, ELLE Decor, 22 June 2010
• The show’s premise, like its title, is both indistinct and somewhat trite.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 18 Mar. 2022
• So, here are three modest gender-reveal ideas, all of which do away with the trite pink-or-blue conceit.
  — Washington Post, 20 May 2021
• The desire to win this one for Hamlin might seem trite to cynics, but that desire is real.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
• To cast such trite aspersions is like saying that women can’t have long hair the other side of 40.
  — Longreads, 5 June 2019
• But there’s only so much director Derek Critzer can do to make up for bland music and trite lyrics.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 24 June 2019
• If the content is a little trite, and the therapists don’t enjoy making it, what good is any of it doing?
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 17 May 2024
• Swift’s trite sarcasm aimed at soyboy hipster skirt-chasers.
  — Armond White, National Review, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024