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• n  unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed

• In Russian it means vulgarity or triteness, but in an interview with Author Herbert Gold in the current Paris Review, Nabokov so expands the definition that it makes one wonder .
• It brings better prices now because, in addition to its literary quality, its sentimentalism, its triteness and the excellence of its technical effects, there hovers over it a .
• Others, even in their triteness, resonate with intriguing new meanings now that the arc of her life is completed.

• staleness

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• NBA Finals 2013: Game 5 and the mysteries of the unknown
  SAN ANTONIO -- Tony Parker is hurt, Manu Ginobli is reeling and the Heat suddenly look like the Heat again. Yet still, no one has any idea what to expect on Sunday, a feeling that was best summed up by Gregg Popovich when he said, "I'd hate to be trite and say anything is possible. Your question demands my triteness." Yep, that's pretty much where we're all at at this point. Questions like, "why ...
  June 16, 2013 - SB Nation