Associations to the word «Hackneyed»
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Wiktionary
HACKNEYED, adjective. Repeated too often.
HACKNEYED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of hackney
Dictionary definition
HACKNEYED, adjective. 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'".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.