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Director James Cameron contributes a short defense of his movie, but an accompanying review pans it: great special effects, hackneyed story.
Both USAT and the Post begin a paragraph with the same hackneyed sentence: "The carnage was widespread."
The plot twists are dismissed as hackneyed, borrowed from Cold War thrillers and courtroom melodramas.
(Nowadays at the Journal , it's considered somewhat hackneyed actually to include the phrase "to be sure" in your "to be sure" paragraph.)
The most overused, overworked, hackneyed word in the cliche-ridden vocabulary of pols and their speechwriters, D.C. bureaucrats, think-tank thinkers, pundits and even lowly working reporters condemned to write about legislation and policy making.