pious platitude

NOUN
  1. insincere talk about religion or morals
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How To Use pious platitude In A Sentence

  • I am referring to the word that means ‘insincere talk, especially concerning morals; pious platitudes’.
  • Laid out on the table in front of me were the pious platitudes of Government Ministers responding to the loss of 350 permanent jobs in Donegal.
  • What stopped this from being a pious platitude was his accompanying insistence that the objective could be achieved by reform.
  • His answer to all these questions is the pious platitude, ‘one standard of citizenship’.
  • He has long abandoned the belief that one must speak in pious platitudes about doing what the framers intended, or not legislating from the bench. Balkinization
  • If one is looking for pious platitudes, this is not the place to come.
  • Nor does he offer pious platitudes. Christianity Today
  • Yet it has evolved as the major challenge of our day, demanding responses beyond pious platitudes.
  • Once again, there is no sign of any reaction from the United Nations beyond pious platitudes.
  • His answer to all these questions is the pious platitude, ‘one standard of citizenship’.
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