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Adjective: hackneyed  hak-need
  1. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    "hackneyed phrases";
    - banal, commonplace, old-hat [informal], shopworn [N. Amer], stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn, shop-soiled [Brit]

See also: cornball [N. Amer, informal], unoriginal

Encyclopedia: Hackneyed

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