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hackneyed

• (s) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  • bromidic sermons
  • his remarks were trite and commonplace
  • hackneyed phrases
  • a stock answer
  • repeating threadbare jokes
  • parroting some timeworn axiom
  • the trite metaphor "hard as nails"
  banal, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, shopworn, tired, well-worn, commonplace,

Synonyms

banal old-hat stock threadbare timeworn trite shopworn tired well-worn commonplace

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