Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Stale, trite, or commonplace through overuse; clichéd.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to bromide (definition 2).
- adjective conventional or trite; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse -- of sayings, assertions, or discourses.
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- adjective
stale ,banal ,clichéd
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality
- adjective given to uttering bromides
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Examples
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She paid homage to the good points of Flamingus, but he was too cut and dried, "bromidic," she classified him, for Derry had carefully explained the etymology of the word.
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Through several bromidic chapters, she exhorts us to resist the temptations of the "Midlife Industrial Complex"—the cosmetic surgeons, the manufacturers of Cleopatra's 24K-gold skin cream, botox and Restalyne—that try to turn middle age into a disease in need of a cure.
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When he speaks on the debt negotiations, he is not only extremely boring, with airy and bromidic language—really they are soul-killing, his talking points—but he never seems to be playing it straight.
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Obama largely repeated his bromidic message on the Jon Stewart show, where he announced how darn proud he was of Americans for going about their daily business -- educating their kids, showing up for work, taking their vitamins, flossing, walking the dog.
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Obama largely repeated his bromidic message on the Jon Stewart show, where he announced how darn proud he was of Americans for going about their daily business -- educating their kids, showing up for work, taking their vitamins, flossing, walking the dog.
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In contrast to these banal and bromidic tomes, California political consultant Richie Ross has just penned “My Letters to Dead People,” a lively little volume which is one-part personal history and one-part professional perspective about some of the biggest personalities and events of the last four decades in state politics.
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To use Katherine Graham's favorite adjective, the prose can only be described as bromidic.
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I had only the slimmest shard of respect for this hack previously based on his bromidic articles, but that phrase confirms that I will never waste another moment on his writing or opinions. taptup
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Natürlich—both adjective and adverb—is a normal, indeed fairly bland and bromidic word in German.
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But like all people who stand before you holding a trophy, I feel compelled to say that I can't help thinking a mistake has been made, and unlike most of the people who utter those bromidic words, I actually believe them.
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June 3, 2008