0 A hackneyed phrase or idea has been said or used so often that it has become boring and has no meaning:
The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.
1 used or said so often that it seems ordinary, meaningless, or not sincere:
a hackneyed plot
In non-literal terms a cliche came to describe an expression that was repeated so often that it lost its freshness and became hackneyed.
In so doing, they are concerned to avoid hackneyed or pejorative phrases.
I am still not entirely convinced by the idea of using these rather hackneyed tunes, especially as the word-setting is sometimes rather clumsy.
What matters is that his music seldom sounds hackneyed.
A second imperative is the avoidance of the cliche, the tired, the trite, the hackneyed.
As a bonus, the text is illustrated throughout by plans and drawings, often far from hackneyed : medieval church art is a particularly lively source.
It can hardly have been an accidental oversight that they rejected the most hackneyed of all operatic formulae inherited from the nineteenth century.
To continue with my hackneyed metaphor, the play of the gravitational field not only modifies the stage - without the play, there would be no stage!
