hackneyed
[ hak-need ]
/ ˈhæk nid /
adjective
made commonplace or trite; stale; banal: the hackneyed images of his poetry.
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hackneyed
/ (ˈhæknɪd) /
adjective
(of phrases, fashions, etc) used so often as to be trite, dull, and stereotyped
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