Hackneyed

A bad writer's prose is full of hackneyed phrases.

It's better not to use rhyme than to use hackneyed rhyme.

I could only come up with hackneyed lines.

In Russian, "love" and "blood", "night" and "help", "roses" and "frost", and so on are all good examples of hackneyed rhymes.

It's a hackneyed, tired word, almost on the level of a cliche, and if I had a student in my class who wrote that in a sentence, I would say no, you have to do better than that.

The sermon was full of hackneyed phrases and platitudes.

It was a great success, that Irish stew. I don’t think I ever enjoyed a meal more. There was something so fresh and piquant about it. One's palate gets so tired of the old hackneyed things: here was a dish with a new flavour, with a taste like nothing else on earth.