Hackneyed - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈhæknɪd|
Brit.
|ˈhæknɪd|
adjective
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse (syn: banal, commonplace, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn)
hackneyed phrases
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...it's hackneyed, but true—the more you save the more you earn...
...advertisers have hackneyed the word “revolutionary” so much that it now just means that a product is new...
'It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story
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