hackneyed

hackneyed has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• imp. & p. p.. of Hackney
• a.. 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'"