hackneyed

a soap opera with a hackneyed plot;

the hackneyed image of the poor student

this is a hackneyed adventure lifted straight from a vintage Lassie episode.

tired of hackneyed jokes

falling back on hackneyed ideas

overused and hackneyed themes

hackneyed phrases in writing

To use the hackneyed phrase, here he found himself.

The words hackneyed and trite have related meanings.

Or any other hackneyed still lifes today.

His half-sister was a hackneyed woman who worked in a haberdashery.

The view thence of Florence is most beautiful—far better than the hackneyed view of Fiesole.

But that expression of violently in love is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea.

" I do know enough Latin to understand a hackneyed quotation, Elliott, " I said tartly.

Bored by the prospect of this new scene of hackneyed pathos he did not open his eyes.

But I also know that these hackneyed proverbs contain the very essence of the distilled wisdom of all ages.

I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.