SAT vocabulary
Hackneyed
Lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite.
Example
"The movie was full of hackneyed plot devices and predictable dialogue."
Etymology
From the verb 'hackney' (to make common by overuse); originally, a hackney was a horse for ordinary riding.
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