hackneyed

hackneyed
    adj 1: 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'" [syn:
           {banal}, {commonplace}, {hackneyed}, {old-hat},
           {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
           {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
    

Hackney \Hack"ney\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hackneyed} (-n[i^]d);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Hackneying}.]
   1. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or
      carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or
      commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
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            Had I so lavish of my presence been,
            So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. --Shak.
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   2. To carry in a hackney coach. --Cowper.
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72 Moby Thesaurus words for "hackneyed":
      antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, automatic, back-number, banal,
      bathetic, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common,
      commonly known, commonplace, constant, conventional, corny,
      current, cut-and-dried, everyday, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty,
      habitual, hack, hackney, household, moth-eaten, musty, notorious,
      obsolete, old hat, out-of-date, outmoded, overworked, persistent,
      platitudinous, proverbial, public, quotidian, recurrent, recurring,
      regular, repetitive, routine, set, square, stale, stereotyped,
      stock, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite,
      truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal,
      warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized,
      well-trodden, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn,
      worn thin, worn-out