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Hackneyed

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Adjective

1. banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

Example Sentences:
'bromidic sermons'
'his remarks were trite and commonplace'
'hackneyed phrases'
'a stock answer'
'repeating threadbare jokes'
'parroting some timeworn axiom'
'the trite metaphor hard as nails''

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Hackneyed

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adjective
(of phrases, fashions, etc) used so often as to be trite, dull, and stereotyped

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Hackneyed

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adjective
made trite by overuse

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Hackneyed

see synonyms of hackneyed
adj.
Overfamiliar through overuse; trite.

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