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Definition of Hackneyed

1. Adjective. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. "The trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

Definition of Hackneyed

1. Adjective. Repeated too often. ¹

2. Verb. (past of hackney) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hackneyed

1. hackney [v] - See also: hackney

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hackneyed

Literary usage of Hackneyed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Composition for College Students by Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott (1922)
"hackneyed Words.—A defect in diction often clearly related to "fine writing" is the use of hackneyed words. Most trite expressions were originally ..."

2. Writing the Photoplay by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Arthur Leeds (1913)
"hackneyed Themes Here is a list of subjects no longer wanted by the editors —unless the theme is given a decidedly new twist—because they have become ..."

3. English: Composition and Literature by William Franklin Webster (1900)
"Much like general terms, which, mean something or nothing, are expressions that have become trite and hackneyed. At some time they hackneyed were accurate ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"So in the "Coningsby " group and robbers, or hackneyed as in the supple- we are struck with the forecast of the ment of a provincial newspaper. ..."

5. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1901)
"... hackneyed dramatis personas, but these are no hackneyed types, nor are they often impossible. The greatly aspiring л ml self-renouncing Margaret may do ..."

6. The Sentimental Traveller: Notes on Places by Vernon Lee (1908)
"If places are hackneyed, it is only in our own eyes and soul, because we see their commonplace side and the rubbish of everyday detail which we bring with ..."

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