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hackneyed, ppl. a.|ˈhæknɪd|
[f. hackney v.]
†1. Hired; kept for hire. Obs.
1767G. S. Carey Hills of Hybla 20 On hackney'd steeds, the giddy blockheads fly. a1818D. Stewart in Jas. Mill Brit. India I. ii. ix. 385 A village apothecary or a hacknied nurse.
2. Used so frequently and indiscriminately as to have lost its freshness and interest; made trite and commonplace; stale.
1749Hurd Notes on Horace's Art Poetry (R.), The tedium arising from hacknied expression. 1785Boswell Voy. Hebrides 24 Aug., The old hackneyed objection. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 375 It is the hackneyed complaint that England is without a fine public collection. 1873Smiles Huguenots Fr. i. v. (1881) 82 Along the hackneyed tourist routes. 1887Symonds Life B. Cellini (1888) I. Introd. 11 Handling a somewhat hackneyed subject.
3. Habituated by much practice, experienced; sometimes with the ulterior idea of disgust or weariness.
1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) III. 146 Hacknied as he was in the ways of wickedness. 1810Scott in Croker Papers 10 Oct., Whatever the practised and hackneyed critic may say. 1823― Peveril xxxix, The hackneyed voluptuary is like the jaded epicure. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, II. vi. 142 Both much too young for hacknied statesmen. |