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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All those slogans we used to chant sound so hackneyed now.
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Politicians tend to repeat the same hackneyed expressions over and over again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this kind of excited appreciation of naturalism in characterisation was not yet hackneyed .
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He asserted that a modern artist should be in tune with his times, careful to avoid hackneyed subjects.
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I worried it was hackneyed , an embarrassment.
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Is there any point in returning to these hackneyed images of the heroic Far West?
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So what if her first original words in months were the most hackneyed .
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This features the most hackneyed sections of the soundtrack of Casablanca.
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This may sound hackneyed , but he really did treat the bar girls as ladies.