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comparative more hackneyed, superlative most hackneyed
Repeated too often. quotations examples
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.
1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […]
(dated) Let out for hire. examples
simple past and past participle of hackney examples