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• s  repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  his remarks were trite and commonplace
  the trite metaphor `hard as nails'

• When will science fiction's trite romance with alien attack will get over and when will it move on to a new genre?
• The movie was stale, replete with trite dialogues and a predictable plot.
• It brought back to mind Filipinos' own suffering under Ferdinand Marcos, which pales into trite insignificance before what the Russian people endured.

• banal
• commonplace
• hackneyed
• old-hat
• shopworn
• stock
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• well-worn

News & Articles

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• 'Drowsy Chaperone' takes audiences on a hysterical ride to the 1920s
  It's not often you see a musical where the narrator admits the script is trite and the characters cardboard.
  June 13, 2013 - Dover Post
• Box Office’s best earn poor reviews: Fast and Furious 6
  By: Konstantin Ravvin, COMMENTARY If it were not for the incessant, $100 million marketing campaign that its producers exploited, “Fast and Furious 6” may have been nicknamed “Trite and Repetitive 6: The Quest for Carnage.” ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Oracle

Quotes

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• Robby Benson in FOXNews
  I was attracted to this project for, I think, all the right reasons for me, and spiritually, the things I believe in,Benson said. "To me, young Billy is just such a good, decent human being. I wanted to make a movie _ this sounds trite _...
• Jerry Jones in USA Today
  There are several decisions on our roster we have to look at,Jones said. "This is the time of year we do that. I'm not trying to be trite, but as you all know we're evaluating players in college, we're evaluating free agents and we're...
• Alan Cumming in Telegraph.co.uk
  Actor Alan Cumming, who starred opposite Richardson in Cabaret, said: "The term 'life force' seems trite but that is what she was: a woman who powered through life and fascinated everyone she encountered."