trite

He knew exactly what he wanted and why and how to tell me, which sounds trite because, you're a director, so that's what a director does.

As if Violet wasn’t nervous enough, her pleasant conversation with Henry is interrupted by trite memes covered in Impact-font text.

Nancy’s adorable gullibility sets her apart from a trite thriller wife.

But the film doesn’t simply evaluate the constraints of monogamy — you’d rarely find a plot point so trite in a Soderbergh film.

Bong walks a delicate line between being facetious and pulling his punches, and the script does sometimes fall to the latter side with some of its more trite resistance messaging.