hackneyed

Everything seemed too hackneyed or unconvincing or simply impossible.

The hackneyed recitation, if rendered better than ever before, will win more applause than a fresh bit carelessly studied.

I sat down at the writing-table and wrote a letter on the hackneyed subject of my unhappy love affair.

Many words become so hackneyed as to be no longer impressive.

And are you, my dear friend, to be duped by this hackneyed word?

Hill was a compiler of books and a hackneyed practitioner in the arts of that profession.