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Word of the Day for Thursday, December 18, 2008hackneyed \HAK-need\, adjective: 1. used too often; commonplace Within earshot of flushing toilets, under the unflinching surveillance of a fake security camera, and accompanied by cheese curls and brightly-colored Kool-Aid, the Museum of Bad Art's newest exhibit, "Hackneyed Portraits," opened earlier this month. "The supply demand dynamics just don't warrant where we are today. It's becoming incredibly hackneyed to say it's all coming from demand in China," he said. To speak of "the dream of paradise" seems hackneyed or else derogatory, as if it were just a daydream or a pipe dream. Special sense of "one who writes anything for hire" led to hackneyed "trite" by 1749. | |||||||||
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