platitudinize

Verb

platitudinize (third-person singular simple present platitudinizes, present participle platitudinizing, simple past and past participle platitudinized)

1. (intransitive) To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.
   • He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.1894 July 24, “An Undenominational Mission: Outspokenness in the Pulpit”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 07 Oct 2011, page 5
   • If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source. But I need not platitudinize to an experienced and learned counsel.1928, R. Austin Freeman, As a Thief in the Night, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 139
2. (transitive) To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms.
   • Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.1842, Solomon Ludwig Steinheim, “On the Perennial and the Ephemeral in Judaism”, in Daniel H. Frank et al., editors, The Jewish Philosophy Reader, published 2000, →ISBN, page 402
   • “It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized.1962, Philip Roth, Letting Go, Random House, published 1997, →ISBN