cursory, desultory, obligatory, banal, unenlightening, rote, halfhearted, overlong, slapdash, trite, superfluous, stilted, unmemorable, meaningless, unilluminating, unrevealing, unconvincing, bland, unquotable, formulaic, melodramatic, overwrought, vapid, stagy, mundane, curt, lachrymose, prosaic, turgid, uninteresting, stagey, bathetic, hackneyed, glib, platitudinous, expository, superficial, dull, anticlimactic, soporific, vacuous, longwinded, gratuitous, flaccid, pointless, obsequious, verbose, gushy, prolix, tedious, overfamiliar, passionless, insincere, mawkish, unobjectionable, scattershot, unsatisfying, undramatic, sententious, inconsequential, interminable, insubstantial, reverent, terse, risible, breathless, winded, unremarkable, cliched, wordier, jokey, reverential, humorless, grudging, amateurish, affectless, insipid, pedantic, otiose, non sequitur, ponderous, leaden, portentous, mealymouthed, digressive, inarticulate, showy, disinterested, grandiloquent, fulsome, customary, monotonous, churlish, unaffecting, unexceptionable, tiresome, decorous, humdrum, snappy, pithier, worshipful, unsubtle, committal, deferential, noncommittal, briefest, casual, courteous, hesitant, patronising, apologetic, condescending, flippant, ironical, dismissive, candid, cheek, deprecating, deprecatory

civility, walk-through, walk through, whitewash

careless, formal, passing, pro forma