In a way that is dull, over-familiar and not sincere. `Tritely` describes HOW something is said, written or done: the words come out worn smooth by everyone who used them before. If a speaker "tritely tells the family that time heals all wounds", the sentence is doing two jobs at once — it reports what was said, and it tells you the speaker reached for a ready-made phrase instead of thinking. That second job is the whole point of the word. It is almost always a criticism, and a fairly bookish one; you meet it in reviews of films, novels and speeches far more often than in speech. English also has a second, milder use, usually inside a phrase like "tritely put" or "however tritely", where the writer is admitting in advance that what they are about to say is a cliché: "It is, however tritely, still true that hard work pays." There the word is an apology, not an attack. Note that the criticism is not that the idea is FALSE — most clichés are true, which is how they got worn out. The complaint is that saying it costs the speaker nothing.

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