hackneyed
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hackneyed (comparative more hackneyed, superlative most hackneyed)
- Repeated too often.
- Synonyms: banal, commonplace, clichéd, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, unoriginal, well-worn; see also Thesaurus:hackneyed
- The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
- 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] [1]:
- 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.
- (dated) Let out for hire.
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repeated too often
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hackneyed
- simple past and past participle of hackney