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She writes in a hackneyed manner with nothing original.hackneyed = writing that is unimaginative and filled with overused expressions, ideas, and formulas
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The most hackneyed phrase in Silicon Valley these days is "We're the next Google."hackneyed = lacking impact because it has been heard so many times before
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Consider using terms that were published in the job requirement in your résumé, even if it means using hackneyed expressions like "highly motivated self-starter." Often this technique gets you past the first computer screening.
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He had remained true enough to himself for art to imitate life however feebly, to the very end of Misery's hackneyed adventures. (source)hackneyed = writing that is unimaginative and filled with overused expressions, ideas, and formulas
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That was what remained: a few stupid war stories, hackneyed and unprofound. (source)hackneyed = lacking impact due to too much previous exposure -- unimaginative and filled with overused expressions, ideas, and formulas
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So what if her first original words in months were the most hackneyed. (source)hackneyed = unimaginative and filled with overused expressions, ideas, and formulas
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It was fresh enough, at least, and it was his own, it wasn't part of a hackneyed trend in scripts. (source)hackneyed = overused
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Rieux had already noticed Grand's trick of professing to quote some turn of speech from "his part of the world" (he hailed from Montelimar), and following up with some such hackneyed expression as "lost in dreams," or "pretty as a picture." (source)hackneyed = lacking impact due to too much previous exposure
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it was hateful to find himself the prisoner of this hackneyed vocabulary. (source)hackneyed = unimaginative and filled with overused expressions
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The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trousers-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever. (source)hackneyed = writing that befits a hack writer; i.e., writing that is unimaginative and filled with overused expressions, ideas, and formulas
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Beneath the everyday incidents, the commonplace thoughts and hackneyed words, I could hear... (source)hackneyed = lacking impact due to too much previous exposure
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The view thence of Florence is most beautiful--far better than the hackneyed view of Fiesole. (source)
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I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell. (source)
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But that expression of "violently in love" is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea. (source)hackneyed = lacking in impact due to too much previous exposure
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It is now necessary for me to use the rather hackneyed phrase "meanwhile, back at the ranch."† (source)
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These reflections appealed to Gordon just because they were so hackneyed.† (source)
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