Hackneyed, made trite and vulgar by too much use: “so common h. in the eyes of men,” H4A III, 2, 40 (M. Edd. common-hackneyed).
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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