Hackney \Hack"ney\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hackneyed (-n[i^]d);
p. pr. & vb. n. Hackneying.]
1. To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or
carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or
commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
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Had I so lavish of my presence been,
So common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. --Shak.
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2. To carry in a hackney coach. --Cowper.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hackneyed
adj : 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'" [syn: banal, commonplace,
old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
tired, trite, well-worn]
WordNet (r) 2.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "hackneyed":
antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, automatic, back-number, banal,
bathetic, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common,
commonly known, commonplace, constant, conventional, corny,
current, cut-and-dried, everyday, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty,
habitual, hack, hackney, household, moth-eaten, musty, notorious,
obsolete, old hat, out-of-date, outmoded, overworked, persistent,
platitudinous, proverbial, public, quotidian, recurrent, recurring,
regular, repetitive, routine, set, square, stale, stereotyped,
stock, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite,
truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal,
warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized,
well-trodden, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn,
worn thin, worn-out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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