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not challenging; dull and lacking excitement; "an unglamorous job greasing engines" unexciting completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities" ordinary obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose" ordinary repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails''" unoriginal a trite or obvious remark |
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