Pronunciations (3)
-
/ˈhæk.nid/
-
[ˈhæknɪi̯d]
-
ˈhækniːd
Adjective
Repeated too often.
- Examples
-
The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.
More examples (2)
It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.
Throughout the novel Ms. Allende uses Eliza and Tao's adventures as an excuse for hackneyed historical observations about the gold rush madness of the 1850's -- much the way she used her hero's peregrinations in "The Infinite Plan" (1993) as an excuse for cliched remarks on the 1960's.
Let out for hire.
Usage- Dated
Adjective
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- Examples
-
his remarks were trite and commonplace
hackneyed phrases
More examples (4)
a stock answer
repeating threadbare jokes
parroting some timeworn axiom
the trite metaphor ‘hard as nails’