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hackneyed
/ˈhækniːd/
adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
full, good, old
VERB + HACKNEYED
come, use
HACKNEYED + NOUN
phrases, platitudes, things
PREP.
than, up, with
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.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — repeated too often
- banal
- commonplace
- old-hat
- shopworn
- threadbare
- timeworn
- tired
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
Wiktionary02
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
Wiktionary03
A bad writer's prose is full of hackneyed phrases.
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It's better not to use rhyme than to use hackneyed rhyme.
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I could only come up with hackneyed lines.
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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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