Bromide (language)

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Bromide in literary usage means a phrase, cliché, or platitude that is trite or unoriginal. It can be intended to soothe or placate; it can suggest insincerity or a lack of originality in the speaker.^[1][2] Bromide can also mean a commonplace or tiresome person, a bore (a person who speaks in bromides).