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hackneyed
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "hackneyed":- I am doing now a description of the races and I have cut out all that seemed to me hackneyed. - "The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters", George Sand, Gustave Flaubert Translated by A.L. McKensie.
- He had repeated these words over and over again, and somehow under the heat of his ardor and longing for his native land this hackneyed phrase took on its real and dreadful value. - "The Blood Red Dawn", Charles Caldwell Dobie.
- Yes; the rough sailor has got just the same sort of feelings inside his bosom which dwells within the silken vest of any young lady or gentleman who can weep over a novel, or better, sometimes, a deed of heroism; and right honest, genuine feelings, they are too- which is more than can be said for those hackneyed sentiments possessed by people who have lived all their lives in what they choose to call the great world. - "Old Jack", W.H.G. Kingston.