Definition of "hackneyed" []

• Overfamiliar through overuse; trite. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "This along with others is listed under the headword "hackneyed phrases.""
• "Bibliophile Stalker interviews Ellen Datlow, Editor of (among many, many other things) the upcoming anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: "It's not that the genres have weaknesses or strengths but that the purveyors of genres write well or badly and use the genres ambitiously or in hackneyed ways.""
• "The lyrics that all the world loves and repeats, the poetry which is often called hackneyed, is on the whole the best poetry."