[每日] hackneyed (a) 陳腐的
Word of the Day (Thursday December 18, 2008)
hackneyed \HAK-need\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/5d5aY
1. used too often; commonplace
2. habituated; experienced
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.
-- Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe, 6/25/2006
"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.
-- Tim Paradis, San Diego Union, 6/6/2008
To speak of "the dream of paradise" seems hackneyed or else
derogatory, as if it were just a daydream or a pipe dream.
-- Evan Eisenberg, The Ecology of Eden
Special sense of "one who writes anything for hire" led to
hackneyed "trite" by 1749.
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