hackneyed

  • 21hackneyed — adjective your hackneyed arguments fail to persuade anyone Syn: overused, overdone, overworked, worn out, timeworn, platitudinous, vapid, stale, tired, threadbare; trite, banal, hack, clichéd, hoary, commonplace, common, ordinary …

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  • 22hackneyed — UK [ˈhæknɪd] / US adjective hackneyed words or ideas have been used so often that they no longer seem interesting or original …

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  • 23hackneyed — [ˈhæknid] adj hackneyed words or ideas have been used so often that they no longer seem interesting or original …

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  • 24hackneyed expression — index platitude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 25hackneyed idea — index platitude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 26hackneyed phrase — index platitude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 27hackneyed saying — index platitude Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 28hackneyed — Synonyms and related words: antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, automatic, back number, banal, bathetic, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common, commonly known, commonplace, constant, conventional, corny, current, cut and dried, everyday,… …

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  • 29hackneyed — hæglÉ™(r) adj. banal, commonplace, trite, unoriginal …

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  • 30hackneyed — adjective (of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite. Origin from the obs. v. hackney use a horse for general purposes , later make commonplace by overuse …

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