[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hackney \hack"ney\, v. t. imp.  p. p. hackneyed -ni^d;
   p. pr.  vb. n. hackneying.
   1. to devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or
      carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or
      commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
      1913 webster

            had i so lavish of my presence been,
            so common-hackneyed in the eyes of men. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to carry in a hackney coach. --cowper.
      1913 webster
see also:
hackneyed hackneying 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hackneyed
     adj : repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
           sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
           "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
           threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom";
           "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" syn: banal, commonplace,
            old-hat, shopworn, stocka, threadbare, timeworn,
            tired, trite, well-worn
see also:
banal commonplace old-hat shopworn stocka threadbare 
timeworn tired trite well-worn 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

72 moby thesaurus words for "hackneyed":
   antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, automatic, back-number, banal,
   bathetic, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic, cliched, common,
   commonly known, commonplace, constant, conventional, corny,
   current, cut-and-dried, everyday, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty,
   habitual, hack, hackney, household, moth-eaten, musty, notorious,
   obsolete, old hat, out-of-date, outmoded, overworked, persistent,
   platitudinous, proverbial, public, quotidian, recurrent, recurring,
   regular, repetitive, routine, set, square, stale, stereotyped,
   stock, talked-about, talked-of, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite,
   truistic, universally admitted, universally recognized, unoriginal,
   warmed-over, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized,
   well-trodden, well-understood, well-worn, widely known, worn,
   worn thin, worn-out

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