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Bromidic

adjective

Given to uttering bromides.

Dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality. Synonyms: corny, platitudinal, platitudinous.

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"Bromidic" Quotes from Famous Books

... death. But as for Martin Blake, law clerk, well, he squatted low and hugged close in his corner. No panic gripped him, but the instinct of self-preservation is a primal instinct. Martin's condition of mind, for the moment, was that bromidic ...

— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer

... "Nothing quite so bromidic as that," laughed the artist. "I have my model engaged, and I had intended to have you borrow a surplice for me, but you may ask your little customer to rent me her gown ...

— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates

... bud. The damned puppy of a fellow took for granted that Christian was in love with him; but here she was, going about as usual, as jolly as a sandboy; "in fact," Dick would say, plastering up with bromidic mortar the windows of the narrow dwelling wherein dwelt Lady Isabel's soul, "all's well that ends well!" With which valuable aphorism, sanctioned by a long and respectable past, the Major contentedly fed his heart, and tranquillised that of ...

— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross