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Stale And Overused As A Saying Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is TRITE which was last seen in the New York Times Mini crossword.
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199%5Exact Match!
242%15 Reliant on overused and stale language
336%6Overused saying

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We think the answer is "TRITE" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  • adjective
  • • Often in reference to a word or phrase: used so many times that it is commonplace, or no longer interesting or effective; worn out, hackneyed.
  • • So well established as to be beyond debate: trite law.
  • noun
  • • A denomination of coinage in ancient greece equivalent to one third of a stater.
  • • Trite, a genus of spiders, found in australia, new zealand and oceania, of the family salticidae.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "Her speech was filled with trite cliches."
  • • "The movie's plot was predictable and trite."

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