bromidic

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Ms. Patterson, you have defaulted on the responsibility to think independently, which is why your "debate" offers nothing but the stale, bromidic, irrational wailings that we have heard from the left for the last 40 years.

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  1. adjective Stale, trite, or commonplace through overuse; clichéd: bromidic gags in sitcoms.

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  • It's just the same old blah-fucking-blah that got the GOP into its current mess, and is quite possibly the most hackneyed, bromidic piece of political nonsense we've ever had the misfortune of reading. —  FITSNews
  • Ms. Patterson, you have defaulted on the responsibility to think independently, which is why your "debate" offers nothing but the stale, bromidic, irrational wailings that we have heard from the left for the last 40 years. —  BusinessWeek.com --
  • Converse to what some bromidic administrators may give credence to, the basic longing to be favored for superior work does not die out after one matures from boyhood. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • But the (very German) Mr Bitomsky never once breaks from his bromidic delivery, to the point where we actually looked around our living room to see if we were being punk'd by our superiors. —  GreenCine Daily
  • As the U.S. press swoons over Barack Obama and his bromidic promise of "change" to the exclusion of almost all else, the African media have noticed Bush's work. —  Latest Articles
 

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