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- adjective
superlative form oftrite : mosttrite .
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Examples
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So although it may be the tritest of trite things to say to someone for whom it seems the sun has been hiding its rays, it must be said: the sun will come out, if not today, then tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, then some day after that, and when it does, it will.feel. glorious.
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If you gave me the tritest scenario with the most cardboard, annoying character outline ever, and I was forced to write that story, I'd find a way to love the character.
Writing Emotion Victoria Janssen 2010
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Why the song with the tritest cheapest rhyme in their whole catalog — veranda/Miranda?
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Why the song with the tritest cheapest rhyme in their whole catalog — veranda/Miranda?
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Or only the tritest words, the sort which are almost more isolating than silence.
Giving in to winter (and Hello Kitty in Hawaii) Elizabeth McClung 2009
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Even when he was yanking my heartstrings with the tritest of regular-people anecdotes, I had three or four tears running down my cheeks.
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So although it may be the tritest of trite things to say to someone for whom it seems the sun has been hiding its rays, it must be said: the sun will come out, if not today, then tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, then some day after that, and when it does, it will. feel. glorious.
Archive 2008-01-20 2008
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So although it may be the tritest of trite things to say to someone for whom it seems the sun has been hiding its rays, it must be said: the sun will come out, if not today, then tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, then some day after that, and when it does, it will. feel. glorious.
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The hoariest plot, the tritest message — these become acceptably highbrow as long as everything is tossed out in shreds that the reader, mentally falling on hands and knees, must piece together.
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Nu Lab's dumb and tritest are very profligate with their comments these days.
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