Sentence example with the word 'hackneyed'

hackneyed

antediluvian, beaten, constant, familiar, moth-eaten, overworked, recurring, stereotyped, trite, well-known, worn thin

Definition adj. repeated too often

Last update: October 13, 2015


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English being spoken world over has many hackneyed expressions.   [adjective]

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The script is admittedly hackneyed, but amiably so - like the best boy 's own adventure yarns of old.   [adjective]

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Again like The Full Monty, Wondrous Oblivion weaves a number of darker, more interesting subplots around a fairly hackneyed central storyline.   [adjective]

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This hackneyed reproach would discredit only your own intelligence and sincerity.   [adjective]

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I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.   [adjective]

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Hackneyed images risk reducing Irish history to textbook postcolonial illustrations.   [Please select]

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We can only refer the reader's imagination to the one old, hackneyed but expressive, word--fairyland.   [Please select]

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It is a hackneyed saying, that "the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church."   [Please select]

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Then she scrambled out and limped away, repeating her innocent but hackneyed ruse.   [Please select]

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The effect, to use a hackneyed but convenient phrase, can better be imagined than described.   [Please select]

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If the subject is hackneyed, dull, or unfit, a lamentable and deep-toned ah.   [Please select]

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