Associations to the word «Hackneyed»
Noun
Adjective
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Wiktionary
HACKNEYED, adjective. Repeated too often.
HACKNEYED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of hackney
Dictionary definition
HACKNEYED, adjective. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.