Thesaurus / hackneyed
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synonyms for hackneyed
- banal
- corny
- stale
- threadbare
- timeworn
- trite
- well-worn
- antiquated
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- everyday
- familiar tune
- hokey
- moth-eaten
- obsolete
- old
- old-chestnut
- old-hat
- old-saw
- out-of-date
- outdated
- outmoded
- overworked
- pedestrian
- played-out
- quotidian
- run-of-the-mill
- stereotyped
- stock
- tripe
- unoriginal
- worn-out
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If it’s a little hammy or hackneyed, it’s because it’s a pretty reliable formula that works.
3D ESCAPE ROOMS, 1980’S-THEMED MURDER MYSTERIES: COMPANIES INVEST IN VIRTUAL RETREATSLUCINDA SOUTHERNOCTOBER 12, 2020DIGIDAYTo use a hackneyed figure, it was as though the earth had opened and swallowed her husband.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSMuch like general terms, which mean something or nothing, are expressions that have become trite and hackneyed.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERI shall probably be met with the hackneyed cry, The question is entirely one of price.
LANDHOLDING IN ENGLANDJOSEPH FISHERYou can't describe them unless you label them with the hackneyed interrogation point.
MY WONDERFUL VISITCHARLIE CHAPLINEach gentleman addressed her with some hackneyed compliment.
THE CHILD OF PLEASUREGABRIELE D'ANNUNZIONow she cared no more for the hackneyed musical word; friendship was her desire.
LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHThis is one of those hackneyed compliments to the manners of antiquity, which are often paid without the least foundation.
DRYDEN'S WORKS (13 OF 18): TRANSLATIONS; PASTORALSJOHN DRYDENBut such hackneyed reflections on the career of a glorified courtezan of yesterday are not apt.
COURT BEAUTIES OF OLD WHITEHALLW. R. H. TROWBRIDGEWhy should he not learn to know many less hackneyed pieces, which do not so frequently appear on concert programs?
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WORDS RELATED TO HACKNEYED
- blah
- bland
- bromidic
- clichéd
- common
- conventional
- cornball
- cornfed
- corny
- dull as dishwater
- dumb
- everyday
- flat
- hackneyed
- ho hum
- hokey
- humdrum
- insipid
- mundane
- noplace
- nothing
- nowhere
- old hat
- ordinary
- pabulum
- pedestrian
- platitudinous
- square
- stale
- stereotyped
- stock
- stupid
- tired
- tripe
- trite
- unimaginative
- unoriginal
- vapid
- watery
- wishy-washy
- zero
- boiler plate
- characterless
- clichéd
- colorless
- conventional
- corny
- customary
- dime-a-dozen
- familiar
- familiar tune
- garden variety
- hackneyed
- humdrum
- lowly
- mainstream
- matter-of-course
- mediocre
- middle-of-the-road
- middling
- mundane
- natural
- normal
- obvious
- ordinary
- pedestrian
- plebeian
- prevalent
- prosaic
- run-of-the-mill
- stale
- starch
- stereotyped
- threadbare
- trite
- typical
- uneventful
- unexceptional
- uninteresting
- unnoteworthy
- vanilla
- widespread
- workaday
- worn-out
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