Hackneyed is valid Scrabble Word

Is hackneyed a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is hackneyed valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
22 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for HACKNEYED in dictionary:

VERB:

HACKNEY, to make trite

ADJECTIVE:

(of a phrase or idea) having been overused; unoriginal and trite
(of a word or phrase) unoriginal and overused
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make common

Words related to HACKNEYED

hackney19 hackneying23 hackneys20

Words that contain HACKNEYED

unhackneyed24

How to use HACKNEYED in a sentence

Such imagery, it may be said, is hackneyed now, and trite even to impertinence.
These figures are so stupendous that they are meaningless without a hackneyed device to bring their meaning home.
The subject is too hackneyed, and, indeed, possesses too little interest, to induce us to give more than an outline of what passed.
The actual plot can only be described as hackneyed.
It is not my intention, however, to do so hackneyed a thing as to give a description of Venice.
There was no language to describe the intimacy of it, except perhaps the hackneyed phrases of the wedding service which had lost all their meaning.
She remained perfectly calm as if repeating a hackneyed experience.
Though the tale is perhaps a trifle hackneyed, yet the duty of every good American is to listen whenever it is told.
Perhaps no scene of beauty in the visible creation has proved a more hackneyed theme for the poet and the philosopher than a starry night.
He uses no hackneyed terms, no second-hand or imitated phrases.

The hackneyed example of moral deliberation is the case of an habitual drunkard under temptation.
They embody a new and perfectly truthful conception of one of the multitude, and have nothing that is hackneyed in them.
The characters of the great Texan and Californian drama are like our hackneyed friends, the Vikings, with a touch, if we may use the term, of spooniness.
Pretty Leamington and Stratford are hackneyed ground.
Their first and most delicate passions are hackneyed on unworthy objects here, and they carry home the dregs, insufficient to make themselves or any body else happy.
The moment which she had so dreaded had arrived, and she found herself, after all her planning, utterly unprepared to meet it save with hackneyed phrases.
Many forms have become too hackneyed to be still adopted.
A similar hackneyed fault is the too frequent application of the name of some historical or Biblical personage to describe the character of some person of whom we are writing.
And in each case it must offer the public a carefully thought out solution instead of mere generalities and hackneyed phrases.
Under such conditions the smallness of the modern world has passed into a hackneyed proverb.
There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.
The lyrics that all the world loves and repeats, the poetry which is often called hackneyed, is on the whole the best poetry.
I can sketch her in for you rather simply because of the hackneyed lines of her very, very old story.
She instinctively avoids every thing that is hackneyed, vulgar, and common place, and uniformly succeeds in pleasing by the judicious novelties she introduces.
He is apart from the conventional and hackneyed type.
The conversation always took the same hackneyed tone, disgusting in its flattery or disquieting by reason of its allusions.
Hardly any quotation is more hackneyed than the last two verses of the first stanza.
It is hackneyed, I know, but there is only one way to describe the great trek to Windhuk.

Similar words containing HACKNEY without suffix ed

hackney19 hackneys20 hackneying23 hackneyism24 hackneyman24 hackneymen24 hackneyisms25 unhackneyed24

Find what other words can be done using letters: "hackneyed"
https://scrabble-word.com/finder/hackneyed

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. We do not cooperate with the owners of this trademark. All trademark rights are owned by their owners and are not relevant to the web site "scrabble-word.com". This site is intended for entertainment and training. We try to make a useful tool for all fans of SCRABBLE. "Scrabble Word" is the best method to improve your skills in the game.