Hackneyed
['hæknɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Hackney
Typist: Shelley
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Worn out, much used.[2]. Common, commonplace, threadbare, trite, stale, beaten.
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Examples
- Much cant have I heard and read about 'maiden modesty,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Every line, every word wasin the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbida dagger to my heart. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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