I Believe That Words Are Powerful

Ok. Today's word is hackneyed. So, have been looking up a few words as Mater had recommended. I am checking Mother's Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. There are a number of definitions for hackney, 1 each for its being used as a noun, adjective, and verb. Note as one most often reads in journalism and literature, the expression hack-neyed\ hak-ned\adj: COMONPLACE syn see TRITE, it is most sensible to focus on the use of hackney as a verb as follows: 3 hackney vt 1a: to make common or frequent use of b: to make trite, vulgar or commonplace 2 archaic: to make sophisticated or jaded. (Note that the above definitions were given on page 373 of the dictionary. )I thought it was used in a disparaging and dismissive sense as in to refer to a person's expression in writing as hackneyed is to find it and to say it is over-used to the pint of being insufferably tiresome and by implication that the write lacks imagination, is in uninspired, lazy, and not bright. In other words the writer who uses hackneyed expressions is just a hack. He is not skilled, brilliant,, or even particularly disciplined. He is producing the written equivalent of a picture that was painted by the numbers.