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hackneyed term

NOUN

jargon

Synonyms

STRONGEST

argot idiom lingo parlance patois slang vernacular vocabulary

STRONG

abracadabra balderdash banality bombast bunk buzzwords cant colloquialism doublespeak drivel fustian gibberish insipidity lexicon neologism newspeak nonsense palaver patter rigmarole slanguage speech tongue twaddle usage

WEAK

cliché commonplace term mumbo jumbo overused term shoptalk stale language street talk trite language

Antonyms

STRONGEST

standard

STRONG

quiet sense silence

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hackneyed term

This transformation of hollow phrase and hackneyed term into a magically charged space – the change, for me personally, from journalist to writer and poet.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2019

There are some bridge players who can, to use a hackneyed term, think outside the box.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2015

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