[ UK /hˈæknɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈhæknid/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    a stock answer
    his remarks were trite and commonplace
    parroting some timeworn axiom
    bromidic sermons
    the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
    repeating threadbare jokes
    hackneyed phrases
    bromidic sermons
    a stock answer
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How To Use hackneyed In A Sentence

  • But he insists on painting a picture with the same old hackneyed images and rancid cliches about salt-of-the-earth heartlanders and morally vacant or cowardly coastal cosmopolitans.
  • It's a trite and hackneyed old platitude - but sometimes, you do just have to stop and look at what's around you.
  • But the key to stock market glory isn't contained in some hackneyed phrase.
  • Sketching the plot of the film calls to mind any number of archetypal/hackneyed tales of fraternal rivalry, flight from danger, coming of age, and so on.
  • The mind tires with the second or third hackneyed phrase. The Times Literary Supplement
  • I'd agree that it is head-and-shoulders above most sitcoms but it follows hackneyed gender traditions (men are blokeish and committment-phobic; women are insecure and needy).
  • By comparison, eighteenth-century painters are more hackneyed, whether producing ‘classical’ landscapes or topographical views.
  • The action is hackneyed - the slo-mo martial arts stuff was neat the first time, but it was already getting old by the time it was re-used in The Matrix Reloaded.
  • His speech seems to have no original ideas, furthermore it's full of hackneyed and stereotyped expressions.
  • hackneyed phrases
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