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a banal praise

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Trite, hackneyed, stereotyped, clich‚d, stereotypical,commonplace, old hat, stock, common, everyday, ordinary,pedestrian, humdrum, tired, unoriginal, unimaginative,platitudinous; trivial, petty, jejune, Slang corny: The bookwas blasted as banal and boring. The plot of boy-meets-girl,though banal, still brings in the audiences.

Trite, feeble, commonplace.

Banality n. (pl. -ies).banally adv. [orig. in sense 'compulsory', hence 'common toall', f. F f. ban (as BAN)]