hackneyed
adjective
made commonplace or trite; stale; banal.
unhackneyed
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a word derived from
hackneyed.
Example Sentences
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As an encore for this unhackneyed recital, Malofeev turned Rachmaninoff’s ultra-hackneyed Prelude in C Minor into something so monumentally thunderous that it nearly overwhelmed all that had come before it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025
They are small and tautly composed, with radiant colors and chiseled forms; the word “gems” applies with an unusual, unhackneyed precision.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2020
The recital opened with strong, unhackneyed songs by women: Elinor Remick Warren, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, and Amy Beach.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2017
Nevertheless they played creditably, excellently, an exacting if not unhackneyed program, which included Liszt's "Les Preludes," Tschaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and the Tannhauser Overture.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is always a promising sign to find a new poet experimenting with unhackneyed verse forms, although the experiments may not always be happy ones.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
