hackneyed — ozdic

Definitions

adj

1

Repeated too often.

The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.

2

Let out for hire.

Collocations

4

ADJ.

full, good, old

VERB + HACKNEYED

come, use

HACKNEYED + NOUN

phrases, platitudes, things

PREP.

than, up, with

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — repeated too often

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

Wiktionary

02

It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a

Wiktionary

03

A bad writer's prose is full of hackneyed phrases.

Tatoeba · #715764

04

It's better not to use rhyme than to use hackneyed rhyme.

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05

I could only come up with hackneyed lines.

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06

In Russian, "love" and "blood", "night" and "help", "roses" and "frost", and so on are all good examples of hackneyed rhymes.

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Usage Notes

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