hackneyed
/ˈhæk.nid/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of hackney
Example Sentences
- "The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes."
- "It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth."
- "Throughout the novel Ms. Allende uses Eliza and Tao's adventures as an excuse for hackneyed historical observations about the gold rush madness of the 1850's -- much the way she used her hero's peregrinations in "The Infinite Plan" (1993) as an excuse for cliched remarks on the 1960's."
Etymology
From hackney + -ed. Most likely from the fact that hackney carriages have been used so much, that they are extremely commonplace now.