Friday, September 19, 2008

HACKNEYED

rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

repeated too often
SYN - banal, commonplace, old-hat, stock, trite, well-worn

"He was really starting to get sick of hearing this hackneyed phrase uttered all over the place."

"The whole novelty of the joke had been hackneyed by the wild spread and over-usage of it on TV."

"One the group's album hit the radio airwaves it was hackneyed and I lost interest."

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