Good sensegood humour;these are trivial things, Dear M-, that each trite encomiast sings.

He uttered the trite commonplace as if no other thought than that of the weather had been in his mind.

This trite illustration enables us to lay down two important laws relating to utility.

It was the busy day at the Emporium, and he had not much to fear from Westcott, whose good quality was expressed by one trite maxim to which he rigidly adhered.

Most of them have been at college, and shared in college excesses; most of them have afterward run a certain gauntlet of dissipation; most have married, and, I am afraid, there are few of the married tribe who have not at some time or other had certain small misunderstandings with their wives.[A] To be sure, they have not all of them felt and acted under these trite adventures as my hero does.

To take another trite proverb of the same kind, we are told how "truths and roses have thorns about them," which is absolutely true; and there is the well-known expression "to pipe in an ivy leaf," which signifies "to go and engage in some futile or idle pursuit" which cannot be productive of any good.

This trite reflection forced itself upon the mind of Burke.

This we find exemplified in that trite Passage which we see quoted in almost every System of Ethicks, tho' upon another Occasion. '... Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor ...' (Ov.)