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Meanings of hackneyed in English

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.

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Usage of hackneyed in English
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It shouldn't be necessary to repeat a list of hackneyed workplace virtues.
The Guardian
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In the second place, the romantic is the opposite of the hackneyed.
Halleck's New English Literature
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This is a hackneyed, age-old argument used by gun-runners the world over.
The Guardian
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The hackneyed words burned again with the freshness of their primal enthusiasm.
Flint: His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
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We amuse him more than the hackneyed comrades he has worn out.
Night and Morning, Volume 5
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Anyhow, it is a little hackneyed for anybody so original as you.
Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also t...
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What you wish, so long as it is not conventional and hackneyed.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
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These words are so hackneyed that verily I blush to write them.
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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An impudent trick as hackneyed as conjuring rabbits out of a hat
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
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To get attention and arouse interest, avoid long-spun introductions and hackneyed expressions.
Business Correspondence, Vol. 1: How to Write a Business Letter
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But when has this club ever stuck to such a hackneyed script?
The Guardian
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Steep mountains are never hackneyed: Cook's Personally Conducted will never permeate Kashmir.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
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The hackneyed phrase would continually ring in his brain of-Neveragain-neveragain!
Three Weeks
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What a nasty, hackneyed, false phrase that is-thatof a marrying man!
Framley Parsonage
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However, I found the plot of the film somewhat hackneyed and used up.
Wired
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It's a good reminder that even hackneyed phrases can still have explanatory power.
The Verge
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