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单词 hackneyed
释义
hackneyed
adjective
disapproving
uk
/ˈhæk.nid/us
/ˈhæk.nid/
A hackneyed phrase orideahas been said or used so often that it hasbecomeboringand has nomeaning:
（语词或观点）陈腐的，老套的
Theplotof thefilmis just a hackneyedboy-meets-girlscenario.这部电影的情节只不过是一个俗套的爱情故事。
Synonyms
clichéd
commonplace
shopwornUS
stock
threadbare
timeworn
tired
tritedisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Tedious and uninspiring
  • anonymous
  • banal
  • basic
  • be (as) dull as ditchwateridiom
  • bland
  • marginal
  • marmoreal
  • meh
  • menial
  • middle-aged
  • slow
  • soulless
  • spinach
  • staid
  • stale
  • staleness
  • stuffy
  • tame
  • turgid
  • worthy
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(Definition ofhackneyedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

hackneyed| American Dictionary

hackneyed
adjective
us
/ˈhæk·nid/
used or said so often that itseemsordinary,meaningless, or notsincere:
a hackneyedplot
(Definition ofhackneyedfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhackneyed

hackneyed
In non-literal terms a cliche came to describe an expression that was repeated so often that it lost its freshness and becamehackneyed.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In so doing, they are concerned to avoidhackneyedor pejorative phrases.
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I am still not entirely convinced by the idea of using these ratherhackneyedtunes, especially as the word-setting is sometimes rather clumsy.
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What matters is that his music seldom soundshackneyed.
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A second imperative is the avoidance of the cliche, the tired, the trite, thehackneyed.
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As a bonus, the text is illustrated throughout by plans and drawings, often far fromhackneyed: medieval church art is a particularly lively source.
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It can hardly have been an accidental oversight that they rejected the mosthackneyedof all operatic formulae inherited from the nineteenth century.
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To continue with myhackneyedmetaphor, the play of the gravitational field not only modifies the stage - without the play, there would be no stage!
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This objection ishackneyed, but it carries more than a grain of truth.
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Mashriqi strengthened the importance of world history as proof for religious truth by employing a somewhathackneyedtechnique of textual interpretation.
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Fowler instructs the writer to beware ifhackneyedphrases should spring to mind.
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Hackneyedcalls to 'carrying on the revolution' have lost all meaning.
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I now come to thathackneyedsubject of the dive bomber.
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I sometimes think that thehackneyedphrase, "a conspiracy of silence," is in our days inaccurate.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I do not want to indulge inhackneyedlanguage, but we have character and quality; we have the will and the potential energy.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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