A platitude made for the express purpose of moving the conversation away from an uncomfortable topic.
"Tanya was bitching to me about her romantic problems, so I threw out a plongitude to get her to stop."
by dontfallinlovewithyourfriends September 30, 2015
A plongitude is at right angles to any common platitude … viz. “the cat’s meow”, a platitude for something quite nice, turns into “the cat’s dogbite” to mean something very “not nice.”
The writer surprises her readers with frequent plongitudes eliciting knowing grins more than lohengrins.
by Collect47 March 27, 2023