Hackneyed

Hackneyed they may be, but in policy terms such words sound about right – these cuts will have a massive impact on the economy and our public services.

George Osborne's talk of percentages and billions will wash over most of us Aditya Chakrabortty 2010

- Class up Daytime TV: Hackneyed soap operas, infomercials, and Spanish game shows are society's punishment for the unemployed.

Doug Lieblich: Alvin Greene: An America for the Unemployed by the Unemployed 2010

 Hackneyed dialogue smells like someone poured a gallon of Charlie on you.

The Nielsens (part one) 2010

For a writer, the use of this term came off as Hey, how do you like this old joke I am recycling because my Hackneyed Plot Device is totally Hackneyed and I am too lazy to try to build any real scientific justification or credibility around this concept.

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Hackneyed actions are just as likely to strike Millicent as clichéd as jargon-stuffed dialogue, after all.

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Hackneyed stories of cushy jobs with goldplated perks are unfair to state sector workers, says Gus O'Donnell

Cabinet secretary slams 'absurd' misrepresentation of civil servants Polly Curtis 2010

- Class up Daytime TV: Hackneyed soap operas, infomercials, and Spanish game shows are society's punishment for the unemployed.

Doug Lieblich: Alvin Greene: An America for the Unemployed by the Unemployed 2010

Hackneyed actions are just as likely to strike Millicent as clichéd as jargon-stuffed dialogue, after all.

Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The scourge of the passive interviewer, part VI: as my dear old professor used to say… 2010

Hackneyed though the idea is, the basic model of theory - hypothesis - experimental test actually does play a role in the scientific process

Politicians and Critics Sean 2008

Hackneyed pics like Wilford Brimley or Matlock could have been just the same ambiguous tone as "wrinkly, old guy" can be read.

Paris Hilton does a pro-McCain ad! Ann Althouse 2008