HACKNEYED
ADJECTIVES
► DOG-EARED worn, creased, and rumpled; shabby, unkempt → 19C Amer. sl.
► HACK in common or promiscuous use; hackneyed; trite, commonplace → 1781
► HACKNEY worn out, like a hired horse, by indiscriminate or vulgar use; threadbare, trite, commonplace; hackneyed → 1596 obs.
NOUNS
► CHESTNUT anything once popular now hackneyed and unfashionable → L19 sl., orig. US
► HACK anything that is in indiscriminate and everyday use, and is ‘hackneyed’ or deprived of novelty and interest by such use; a hackneyed sermon, book, quotation, etc. → 1711 obs.
► PERCOCT that which is exaggerated, hackneyed, or trite → 1879 obs.
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