Crossword-Solution: HACKNEYED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hackneyed | imp. & p. p. | of Hackney |
We have 65 clues for the answer “HACKNEYED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AND DRIED CUT | 10 answers |
| Cut and dried? | 12 answers |
| CUT-and-dried | 13 answers |
| Quotidian | 18 answers |
| Well-worn | 19 answers |
| cliche | 22 answers |
| Clichèd | 23 answers |
| bathetic | 25 answers |
| fusty | 27 answers |
| Time-worn | 29 answers |
| Hoary | 30 answers |
| DAILY ___ | 41 answers |
| stereotyped | 41 answers |
| sisterhood | 41 answers |
| drear | 44 answers |
| Mutual ___ | 45 answers |
| comparative | 45 answers |
| conjoint | 47 answers |
| Worn out | 47 answers |
| corny | 47 answers |
| Conforming | 48 answers |
| Threadbare | 48 answers |
| Overused | 48 answers |
| Tiresome | 50 answers |
| BORROWED ___ | 52 answers |
| archaic | 52 answers |
| cloying | 52 answers |
| Overdone | 53 answers |
| Mawkish | 53 answers |
| Banal | 53 answers |
| CIVIC ___ | 54 answers |
| sappy | 54 answers |
| Normal | 55 answers |
| Known | 55 answers |
| Trite | 55 answers |
| Wearisome | 55 answers |
| Typical | 56 answers |
| Spiritless | 56 answers |
| Frequent | 58 answers |
| prosaic | 58 answers |
| Pedestrian | 59 answers |
| Maudlin | 59 answers |
| Humdrum | 60 answers |
| unanimated | 61 answers |
| Stale | 61 answers |
| Gathered | 62 answers |
| Worn | 62 answers |
| Outmoded | 62 answers |
| mundane | 63 answers |
| Obsolete | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ECNROA
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with HACKNEYED (5)
The man’s wife had already tried the same experiment, and failed! How could the born lady—the recluse of half a lifetime, utterly unpractised in the world, at sixty years of age,—how could she ever dream of succeeding, when the hard, vulgar, keen, busy, hackneyed New England woman had lost five dollars on her little outlay! Success presented itself as an impossibility, and the hope of it as a wild hallucination.
But neither here nor elsewhere do I pretend to give his exact words; his vocabulary was small, and he had no gift for framing sentences, so that one had to piece his meaning together out of interjections, the expression of his face, gestures and hackneyed phrases.
Here and there, no doubt, a frigid urn or an insipid angel imprisoned some fine-fibred grief, as the most hackneyed words may become the vehicle of rare meanings; but for the most part the endless alignment of monuments seemed to embody those easy generalizations about death that do not disturb the repose of the living.
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.
Philip had a queer feeling in his heart, it seemed very full, it seemed to melt (the hackneyed phrases expressed precisely the curious sensation), he felt happy and anxious and expectant.
Quotes with HACKNEYED (3)
On the surface, I was calm: in secret, without really admitting it, I was waiting for something. Her return? How could I have been waiting for that? We all know that we are material creatures, subject to the laws of physiology and physics, and not even the power of all our feelings combined can defeat those laws. All we can do is detest them. The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that finis vitae sed non amoris, is a lie, useless and…
And then she reminded me: "It's the journey, not the destination, true?""True." I said "A bit hackneyed, but true indeed." She sighed. I smiled.
The name outlaw Christian describes the kind of Christian I am and the kind I’m setting myself free to become: namely, a follower of Jesus who no longer accepts cocky clichés, hackneyed hope, or snappy theodicies — defenses of God’s goodness and power — that explain away evil and suffering with a theo-magical sleight of hand. An outlaw Christian doesn’t condemn questions or discourage doubt. Instead, an outlaw Christian seeks to live an authentic life of faith and integrity, …
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1985–2021).