hackneyism
- a word derived from hackney.
Example Sentences
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A hackneyism lacks the picturesqueness of originality, but is as useful in its way as a public road to a desired destination.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Burleigh, Bennet
