Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
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It shouldn't be necessary to repeat a list of hackneyed workplace virtues.
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In the second place, the romantic is the opposite of the hackneyed.
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This is a hackneyed, age-old argument used by gun-runners the world over.
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The hackneyed words burned again with the freshness of their primal enthusiasm.
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We amuse him more than the hackneyed comrades he has worn out.
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Anyhow, it is a little hackneyed for anybody so original as you.
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What you wish, so long as it is not conventional and hackneyed.
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These words are so hackneyed that verily I blush to write them.
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An impudent trick as hackneyed as conjuring rabbits out of a hat
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To get attention and arouse interest, avoid long-spun introductions and hackneyed expressions.
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But when has this club ever stuck to such a hackneyed script?
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Steep mountains are never hackneyed: Cook's Personally Conducted will never permeate Kashmir.
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The hackneyed phrase would continually ring in his brain of-Neveragain-neveragain!
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What a nasty, hackneyed, false phrase that is-thatof a marrying man!
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However, I found the plot of the film somewhat hackneyed and used up.
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It's a good reminder that even hackneyed phrases can still have explanatory power.
