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Webster 1828 Edition


Hackneyed

HACK'NEYED

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Used much or in common.
1.
Practiced; accustomed.
He is long hackneyed in the ways of men.

Definition 2024


hackneyed

hackneyed

English

Adjective

hackneyed (comparative more hackneyed, superlative most hackneyed)

  1. Repeated too often.
    The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

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Verb

hackneyed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of hackney