hackneyed

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.
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