Platitude

The term platitude ( in the old spelling still platitude platitude or French; French: " flatness ", " flatness " ) refers to a meaningless or trivial statement.

The term comes from the French and was used by the German upper class as a fine term for a platitude, a meaningless platitude or shallowness.

As an example of campaign promises can serve as the one to cut taxes without making any concrete information, which taxes this affects how financed, or in what time frame it should be done.