Do not use that hackneyed expression in your speech tonight. From LearnThat.org.
The lyrics that all the world loves and repeats, the poetry which is often called hackneyed, is on the whole the best poetry. From Wordnik.com. [George Washington]
That I was inclined to look beyond the hackneyed was a clear signal sent out. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
"I want to live my own life!" Cherry answered, after a silence during which her tortured spirit seemed to coin the hackneyed phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
Nor must we overlook the so-called hackneyed valses, the tinkling charm of the one in G-flat, the elegiac quality of the one in B minor. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference
It sounds kind of hackneyed, but one day at a time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2005] Reference
Yes, jokes about fat people are hackneyed, which is why I don’t do them. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Lard of the Rings] Reference
Its interesting that you call the use of the "he's been dead the whole book" ending as "hackneyed". From Wordnik.com. [What The Third Policeman Can Tell Us About Lost] Reference
He rails about the kind of hackneyed movie he doesn't want to write -- the kind where characters learn tidy life-altering lessons. From Wordnik.com. [Meta-Movie Madness] Reference
Enjoyable enough, but kind of hackneyed, even if Dustin Hoffman is very good here. From Wordnik.com. [Debbie Schlussel] Reference
That comparison is, I believe, somewhat hackneyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
America will not suffer any such hackneyed fol-de-rol. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
At the risk of using a hackneyed cliché, it can happen here. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To (Intellectual) Serfdom] Reference
The more hopeful moments, oddly, are often the most hackneyed. From Wordnik.com. [No One Is Immune From The Rot] Reference
It is a melancholy sign of the times to learn that such hackneyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Wildly popular but hackneyed book yields popular but boring movie. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Work It Out Edition] Reference
Matthew Arnold's line is hackneyed enough; but it cannot be bettered. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
That's naive and where the anti-war protestors fall back on the hackneyed. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Shakespeare] Reference
He gives new meaning to the hackneyed literary phrase "unreliable narrator.". From Wordnik.com. [What's Eating William Gass?] Reference
These great works have been so hackneyed by frequent repetitions at the Metropolitan. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
It's almost hackneyed by now to refer to Generation X as nihilistic and self-indulgent. From Wordnik.com. [Gen X Invades Asia] Reference
On his mark again, now Lewis stopped trying to juice himself up with hackneyed exhortations. From Wordnik.com. [Touching Down] Reference
But in fairness to Mrs. Hubbard, the slogan wasn't as hackneyed back then as it sounds today. From Wordnik.com. [Parsing The Politics Of 'Main Street'] Reference
Perhaps, where nature herself is so original, it is impossible for even thought to be hackneyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
I'm going for 12 because Top 10 lists are almost as hackneyed as thousand-point-milestone stories. From Wordnik.com. [7000! So When To Sell?] Reference
That hackneyed old tea towel explaining the Laws of Cricket for non-believers needs some updating. From Wordnik.com. [Trial by technology sows seeds of doubt and distrust] Reference
The hackneyed simile of the cat and the mouse seemed to me to be especially applicable in the present instance. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
Something of greater import than winning hackneyed arguments and electing candidates now appears to be at stake. From Wordnik.com. [A Father’s Further Review] Reference
The reader is enamored with the quiet enjoyments of rural life, and disgusted with the schemes of hackneyed sharpers. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
No doubt the hop-field will now be exploited by other writers, until in time it will become as hackneyed as the desert. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference
They seem not to remember that people are more animated by religions, ideas and emotions than by spin or hackneyed "symbolism.". From Wordnik.com. [Tropical Europe, Or 'Viva Evita!'] Reference
McCarthy has proved beyond a doubt that he can take a hackneyed genre, the cowboy novel, and elevate it to the level of literature. From Wordnik.com. [Brightening Western Star] Reference
It is not a hackneyed utterance to say that no pen can adequately depict the horrors of this twin disaster -- holocaust and deluge. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
That's why all the talk of Hillary Clinton's "war chest" making her the front runner for 2008 is the most hackneyed punditry around. From Wordnik.com. [A New Open-Source Politics] Reference
Trite words, similes and metaphors which have become hackneyed and worn out should be allowed to rest in the oblivion of past usage. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
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