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