hackneyed

A bit hackneyed, perhaps, but a pretty fair description of the state of affairs.

The notion of making China a "responsible stakeholder" in world affairs has a hackneyed ring. But it is still the best option available.

The plot of the film is just a hackneyed boy-meets-girl scenario.

The traditional, but somewhat hackneyed approach is to turn the weakness into strength.

Crack is one of highway early diseases. In them, transverse crack, lengthways crack and other linear crack are hackneyed.

That expression of "violently in love" is so hackneyed , so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea.

In each chapter I have solved at least one issue and each result is original or creative without any plagiarism or hackneyed ideas.

I hate those hackneyed information, more hate those on the spur of the moment to play " thanksgiving" .

she said . it was best to be hackneyed.

Robert is experiencing a hackneyed fairy tale of Cinderella. It's a chance for us to test whether it's a legend or no more than a daydream.

In even the simplest and most hackneyed Italian street song, he grips the audience like a benign bear.

His message was a hackneyed and grasping exposition of those fears.

As the GPS and AD convert chip used are hackneyed in the market, this signal collection system has much lower cost and good credibility.

The singular storyline puts a twist on a hackneyed subject, providing fresh and provocative entertainment.

Too often used or too well known to be effective; hackneyed .

Occlusal illness which brings on excess abrasion is very hackneyed in clinic. Especially, the elderly patients are in the majority.

An utterance of conventional notions or beliefs; a hackneyed expression.

PURPOSE: Urolithasia is a kind of hackneyed disease of urinary surgery, including kidney calculi, ureteral calculi, vesical calculi.

Um, Ted? 2006 called, and it wants the hackneyed geopolitical analysis back. . . . and sent via MySpace.

In the end, it summarized the hackneyed trouble of the hydraulic system in run time.

a commonplace or hackneyed statement or notion burlesque n.

This is probably a good bit better than the hackneyed method that H. 264 uses, which always struck me as being poorly designed.

I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.

Or maybe we will criticize it for being boring or hackneyed.

It didn't matter; those hackneyed (now I look back on it) figurines were worth it.

Hackneyed reindeers and elves won't cut it.

The circular structure is a hackneyed structure, and it is especially universal on the Moon.