hackneyed

About 0.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of speech or writing, a phrase, etc.: uninteresting and unoriginal from being repeated too often.

   The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

2. adjective Let out for hire.
3. verb simple past and past participle of hackney

Similar words

trite banal commonplace unoriginal tired timeworn shopworn well-worn threadbare stock

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