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What (who) is hackneyed - definition

IDEA WHICH HAS BECOME OVERUSED TO THE POINT OF LOSING ITS ORIGINAL MEANING OR BEING IRRITATING
Cliche; Clichés; Cliches; Stock phrase; Clichéd; Clichè; Hackneyed; List of clichés
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hackneyed         
If you describe something such as a saying or an image as hackneyed, you think it is no longer likely to interest, amuse or affect people because it has been used, seen, or heard many times before.
Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
ADJ
Hackneyed         
·Impf & ·p.p. of Hackney.
hackneyed         
a.
1.
Worn out, much used.
2.
Common, commonplace, threadbare, trite, stale, beaten.

Wikipedia

Cliché

A cliché (UK: or US: ) is an element of an artistic work, saying, or idea that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being weird or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel. In phraseology, the term has taken on a more technical meaning, referring to an expression imposed by conventionalized linguistic usage.

The term is often used in modern culture for an action or idea that is expected or predictable, based on a prior event. Typically pejorative, "clichés" may or may not be true. Some are stereotypes, but some are simply truisms and facts. Clichés often are employed for comedic effect, typically in fiction.

Most phrases now considered clichéd originally were regarded as striking but have lost their force through overuse. The French poet Gérard de Nerval once said, "The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet, the second, an imbecile."

A cliché is often a vivid depiction of an abstraction that relies upon analogy or exaggeration for effect, often drawn from everyday experience. Used sparingly, it may succeed, but the use of a cliché in writing, speech, or argument is generally considered a mark of inexperience or a lack of originality.

Pronunciation examples for hackneyed
1. Is transformation a hackneyed term?
Social Selling _ Catherine Kaputa _ Talks at Google
2. Is that a hackneyed term?
Social Selling _ Catherine Kaputa _ Talks at Google
3. participants to express their hackneyed ad hominems,
The Rapture of Nerds _ Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross _ Talks at Google
4. You think this is just so hackneyed.
Gold in a Brass Age _ David Gray _ Talks at Google
5. that these-- without being too hackneyed about it--
This Wish _ Bill Griffin _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of hackneyed
1. His attitude toward the curriculum in secular schools is known and hackneyed.
2. Besides the clichéd and hackneyed script, Santoshi’s direction doesn’t do much to elevate the situation.
3. Speech after speech at Manchester made the same hackneyed point that Cameron is all about image.
4. Forget the hackneyed ‘tough on crime‘ rhetoric — that‘s all it ever was, rhetoric.
5. It is a hackneyed strategy of the imperialists to disintegrate the progressive countries from within.