hackneyed
adj/ˈhæk.nid/ · [ˈhæknɪi̯d]
Etymology From hackney + -ed.
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Repeated too often.
- The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
- It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
1 more example
- Throughout the novel Ms. Allende uses Eliza and Tao's adventures as an excuse for hackneyed historical observations about the gold rush madness of the 1850's -- much the way she used her hero's peregrinations in "The Infinite Plan" (1993) as an excuse for cliched remarks on the 1960's.1999 November 2, Michiko Kakutani, “Books of The Times: A Single Girl Takes On the California Frontier”, in The New York Times (E section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
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Dated Let out for hire.
- Synonyms
- banal, bathetic, bromidic, cheesy, stock, clichéd, commonplace, corny, dog-eared, hackneyed, hoary, overdone, overused, overworked, pat, played out, shopworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, warmed-over, well-worn
- Derived terms
- hackneyedness, unhackneyed
- Related terms
- boring, cookie-cutter, mediocre, monotonous, unoriginal, saying
- Hypernyms
- common, repeated, repetitive