Usually means: Overused statements lacking original thought.
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  1. platitudes: Merriam-Webster
  2. platitudes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. platitudes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Platitudes, platitudes: Wordnik
  5. platitudes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. platitudes: Wiktionary
  7. platitudes: Dictionary.com
  8. platitudes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Platitudes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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(Note: See platitude as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (platitude)

noun:  (countable) An often-quoted saying that is supposed to be meaningful but has become unoriginal or hackneyed through overuse.
noun:  (countable) A claim that is trivially true, to the point of being uninteresting.
noun:  (uncountable) Flatness; lack of change, activity, or deviation.
noun:  (uncountable) Unoriginality; triteness.
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