hackneyed English

Meaning hackneyed meaning

What does hackneyed mean?

hackneyed

— adjective (= commonplace, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse bromidic sermons his remarks were trite and commonplace hackneyed phrases a stock answer repeating threadbare jokes parroting some timeworn axiom the trite metaphor 'hard as nails'

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trite

commonplace

banal

shopworn

well-worn

tired

threadbare

timeworn

stale

stock

old-hat

cliched

unoriginal

overused

bromidic

worn-out

worn out

worn

workaday

vulgarity

vulgar

unimaginative

torn

stereotyped phrase

stereotype

run-down

prosaical

prosaic

played out

platitudinous

outworn

old hat

old fashioned

marred

mangled

hard-worked

fixed formula

everyday

eroded

elapsed

corny

common

careworn

bland

battered

attrited

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