hackeneyed

GLAAD is so upset they've found a reason to use the word "hackeneyed"; we're told via email the group is "reaching out to the

Gay Geeks.Org 2010

GLAAD is so upset they've found a reason to use the word "hackeneyed"; we're told via email the group is "reaching out to the

Queerty 2010

I certainly wouldn't put it in the same class as the sort of philistine anti-intellectualism we find all too often in genre, the populism that celebrates the most hackeneyed and formulaic while decrying any hint of ambition as pretension.

More Pretentiousness Hal Duncan 2008

I certainly wouldn't put it in the same class as the sort of philistine anti-intellectualism we find all too often in genre, the populism that celebrates the most hackeneyed and formulaic while decrying any hint of ambition as pretension.

Archive 2008-04-01 Hal Duncan 2008

This is not just a hackeneyed whinge: social cognition research shows that where interlocutors knowingly take positions that undermine their own self interest, audiences consider them more trustworthy.

Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010

Everything is so effing convenient and hackeneyed and hasty and amateurish.

NAACHGAANA 2009