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hackneyed sentence examples

  • Hackneyed contemporary phrase, 'a sense of identity ' .
  • This is a real shame as the role does have potential to really deliver a great performance, despite the rather hackneyed script.
  • Repeated ad nauseam, however, the whole thing becomes hackneyed, stagnant and, dare i say it, dangerously self-referential.
  • Hackneyed stereotypes are used over and over again.
  • Hackneyed images risk reducing irish history to textbook postcolonial illustrations.
  • Hackneyed old football cliché, ' a game of two halves ' , was proved correct yet again.
  • Hackneyed clichés of yore?
  • Hackneyed situations come across as fresh and funny.

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