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hackneyed
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hackneyed
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adjective
using hackneyed phrases
synonyms
: hack, banal, trite, overused, overworked, tired, worn-out, time-worn, stale, stereotyped, clichéd, platitudinous, unoriginal, unimaginative, commonplace, common, pedestrian, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, stock, conventional;
inf.
played-out, corny, old-hat.
antonyms:
fresh; ...
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What Europe 1992 means for U.S. business.
Magazine article from: Business Economics
; ...1992 is the symbol of our renewed dynamism. We are again on the move. The words momentum and irreversibility are becoming hackneyed phrases to describe the state of play, but they are right on target. As a result of legislative decisions and actions of the private...
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 "Isle of Man Newspapers (Douglas, England)")
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Chris Kneen on course for USA challenge.
Newspaper article from: Isle of Man Newspapers (Douglas, England)
; ...keyboards and plastering one of sport's consummate cliches across websites and newspapers from London to Las Vegas. As hackneyed phrases go, it is as prevalent now as it has ever been with Google returning no fewer than 16,200 results from websites containing...
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Who us? Stop blaming kids and TV.(for crime and substance abuse)
Magazine article from: The Progressive
; ...University media analyst Mark Crispin Miller. In his critique of Channel One in the May edition of Extra!, Miller invoked such hackneyed phrases as the inevitable rebelliousness of adolescent boys, the hormones raging, and the defiant boorish behavior of young men...
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We're here because we're here.(Brother Fire)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Poetry
; ...words, without evident stress patterns, laid out in long strips uninterrupted by full-stops. Sometimes they hurry past hackneyed phrases without taking time to notice-- I was alone with the world, doubtful / promise of what's there / in a lost unknown place...
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Fontane and the programmatic realists: contrasting theories of the novel.(Theodor Fontane)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...eine Periode ehrlichen Gefuhls und gesunden Menschenverstandes nach sich ziehen. (1: 9) Realism, he writes, is the sworn enemy of hackneyed phrases and sham effusiveness (I: II). The 'unhealthy' trends of the 1830s include magic-mongering lat
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Media attention.(Kaleidoscope)
Magazine article from: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
; ...incentives to buy a hybrid. As business people, we have a responsibility to look further than the next quarter's profits. Hackneyed phrases as giving back to the community and corporate responsibility have to be matched with action. One doesn't have to be an...
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On Reagan: the man and his presidency.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...nosirreebob. Or with some dumb rednecks, nuther. Hail no. Which may be why he thinks he can score points by using the sort of hackneyed phrases even a New York Times editorial writer would eventually seek elegant variations for. This may account for the inexplicable...
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