Examples of 'hackneyed' in a sentence
Meaning of "hackneyed"
hackneyed (adjective) - Refers to something that is overused, unoriginal, or clichéd. It is often used to describe ideas, phrases, or artistic works that lack originality
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- Repeated too often.
- Let out for hire.
- simple past tense and past participle of hackney
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It all sounds like a hackneyed old melodrama.
This hackneyed technique does not work at all.
Mostly as a delivery apparatus for hackneyed punchlines.
His hackneyed shenanigans robbed me of my dignity for years.
Cats have become hackneyed on the internet.
Her own prose was bloated and hackneyed.
I have borrowed the hackneyed old populist slogan.
Hackneyed verbal and graphic solutions.
Do not try that hackneyed ruse on me.
Little shit whose books are vapid and hackneyed.
Unaccustomed to the hackneyed routine of reviews.
The scripts are old and hackneyed.
That again is a hackneyed rhetorical observation.
It is now necessary for me to use the hackneyed phrase.
I feel a hackneyed phrase coming on.
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He rarely used words he considered hackneyed or word fillers.
The hackneyed light of evening quarreling with the bulbs.
It is not worthwhile to answer hackneyed ideas and arguments.
You hackneyed old ham.
I love clichés and hackneyed expressions.
Hackneyed views like that will not change things.
These assumptions relate to the most hackneyed idealism.
This hackneyed romantic fantasy.
Sometimes it sounds like lines from some old hackneyed melodrama.
This is more than a hackneyed gap between the generations.
Hackneyed in all the petty dissipations of the rich and worthless.
They debated and hackneyed words back and forth.
He led his crusaders through the past into a hackneyed utopia.
This is another hackneyed notion ideal for dividing rooms.
The idea of a progressive and adventurous teacher is hackneyed in the movies.
Some hackneyed arguments are rising to the surface once again.
In extraordinarily hackneyed actions.
The hackneyed example of moral deliberation is the case of an habitual drunkard under temptation.
The answer that we all already have head is the hackneyed crisis.
A concept somewhat hackneyed but still brings beauty and personality.
You will not be sketching eggs or any other hackneyed still lifes today.
And all those hackneyed bromides about not giving the kids the car keys.
I said nothing but what have been repeated and hackneyed in that room before.
As is the hackneyed US excuse for imposing the new tariffs.
You accessed my holonovel without permission and replaced it with your own hackneyed narrative.
It is also played in a highly hackneyed fashion and often faked with preposterous miniatures.
You accessed my hoIonoveI without permission and replaced it with your own hackneyed narrative.
We must never confuse freedom with the hackneyed interpretation that the end justifies the means.
Hackneyed to Haystack.
Just like I knew your play was a mediocre patchwork of hackneyed ideas and tired clichés.
The report repeats hackneyed allegations regarding the transfer of weapons to Hizbullah.
The Goldensteins are similarly hackneyed characters.
You left me hackneyed message on the bed?
Washington march to the Pentagon against the hackneyed Vietnam war.
Christos Bagavos and Claude Martin he hackneyed perceptionsoffertility levels in Europeare no longer true.
