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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) hackneyed
made commonplace or trite; stale; banal.

Etymology: (1740–50)

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1. (adj) banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
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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1. hackneyed
of Hackney

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