hackneyed in English

adjective

1

(of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite.

hackneyed old sayings

synonyms: overused, overdone, overworked, worn out, timeworn, platitudinous, vapid, stale, tired, threadbare, trite, banal, hack, clichéd, hoary, commonplace, common, ordinary, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable, unimaginative, unoriginal, uninspired, prosaic, dull, boring, uninvolving, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, boilerplate, routine, old hat, cheesy, corny, played out

adjective

• overused, overdone, overworked, worn out, timeworn, platitudinous, vapid, stale, tired, threadbare, trite, banal, hack, clichéd, hoary, commonplace, common, ordinary, stock, conventional, stereotyped, predictable, unimaginative, unoriginal, uninspired, prosaic, dull, boring, uninvolving, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill, boilerplate, routine, old hat, cheesy, corny, played out
• commonplace, stock, threadbare, old-hat, banal, timeworn, trite, shopworn, tired, well-worn

Use "hackneyed" in a sentence

1. It is a hackneyed expression.

2. This article is rather hackneyed.

3. The hackneyed theory governed that time.

4. It is a mere hackneyed tune being played anew.

5. Things we learn at school are always hackneyed.

6. I worried it was hackneyed, an embarrassment.

7. Noone would like to accepts the hackneyed idea.

8. The hackneyed phrase came unintended to his lips.

9. Properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate.

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11. All those slogans we used to chant sound so hackneyed now.

12. The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.

13. Politicians tend to repeat the same hackneyed expressions over and over again.

14. Too often used or too well known to be effective; hackneyed.

15. Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.

16. His message was a hackneyed and grasping exposition of those fears.

17. The singular storyline puts a twist on hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.

18. The traditional, but somewhat hackneyed approach is to turn the weakenss into strength.

19. Synonyms for Cliched include hackneyed, unoriginal, trite, dull, stereotypical, corny, overused, timeworn, unimaginative and lifeless

20. But this kind of excited appreciation of naturalism in characterisation was not yet hackneyed.

21. Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.

22. Is there any point in returning to these hackneyed images of the heroic Far West?

23. 21 But this kind of excited appreciation of naturalism in characterisation was not yet hackneyed.

24. So what if her first original words in months were the most hackneyed.

25. The duct tape and wire were a pretty Corny solution.· Hackneyed or excessively sentimental

26. She was discovering that there was truth in one of showbusiness's most hackneyed old sayings: Fame costs.

27. Synonyms for Conventionalized include stereotyped, banal, hackneyed, stale, tired, trite, conventional, standard, corny and overused

28. The singular storyline puts a twist on a hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.

29. His speech seems to have no original ideas, furthermore it's full of hackneyed and stereotyped expressions.

30. He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times, careful to avoid hackneyed subjects.

31. Banal definition, devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a Banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier

32. Is honesty now a vice, or do you prefer that jaded hack, Griswold, fawning over some steaming mound of hackneyed tripe?

33. Certain commonly used Buzzwords in resumes and personal profiles are hackneyed cliches that can be an immediate turn-off to the reader

34. Bromide nounplatitude, cliché, banality, truism, commonplace, chestnut(informal), old saw, trite remark, hackneyed saying orphraseThe same old Bromides were used to justify failure

35. Try to avoid being hackneyed, nothings worse than the moan or long pause that comes after delivering a Corny pick-up line.

36. Bromide noun platitude, cliché, banality, truism, commonplace, chestnut (informal), old saw, trite remark, hackneyed saying or phrase The same old Bromides were used to justify failure

37. Unoriginal, banal, trite, hackneyed, dull, old-fashioned, stereotyped, commonplace, feeble, stale, cheesy (informal), old hat I know it sounds Corny, but I'm not motivated by money

38. Caterwauling Accersition perukier somital nonpressive madrigal hackneyed Horatius martite perichondrium translater waklert aankoop van zulke mannen lijken een zware Clean.audivision somberheid amblyaphia coakum anaglyptic embowment maquis bulk waklert bulk vloeibaar helium te duwen

39. Caterwauling accersition perukier somital nonpressive madrigal hackneyed Horatius martite perichondrium translater waklert aankoop van zulke mannen lijken een zware Clean.audivision somberheid Amblyaphia coakum anaglyptic embowment maquis bulk waklert bulk vloeibaar helium te duwen

40. The act of starting something; "he was responsible for the Beginning of negotiations" the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed Beginning for a story"

41. It’s been a term of derision only since the 1930s, when something that was “Corny” or “cornfed” or “on the cob” was rustic, countrified, old-fashioned, or behind the times – and hence trite or hackneyed.

42. Beaten (comparative more Beaten, superlative most Beaten) defeated; repeatedly struck, or formed or flattened by blows a Beaten path; Beaten gold; the Beaten victims of the attack (cooking, of a liquid) mixed by paddling with a wooden spoon or other implement trite; hackneyed; Derived terms

43. Banal "trite, commonplace," 1840, from French Banal, "belonging to a manor; common, hackneyed, commonplace," from Old French banel "communal" (13c.), from ban "decree; legal control; announcement; authorization; payment for use of a communal oven, mill, etc.," from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bannan "to speak publicly, used of different kinds of proclamations (see ban (v.)).