Definitions
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- adjective
used too much, or too often - adjective of a word or phrase
hackneyed orclichéd
Etymologies
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Examples
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KING: To use a term overused in this investigation, it is perhaps fair game for you to say everything you're saying about Joe Wilson, to question his story.
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Verily, when the first images of the perfectly boring new logo -- basically "Gap" in overused Helvetica, with a little blue square hovering just above and to the right -- landed on the Interweb, the outcry hit like a thunderclap made of toenail clippings and old pudding.
Mark Morford: I Am Outraged! Are You Not Outraged? Mark Morford 2010
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Verily, when the first images of the perfectly boring new logo -- basically "Gap" in overused Helvetica, with a little blue square hovering just above and to the right -- landed on the Interweb, the outcry hit like a thunderclap made of toenail clippings and old pudding.
Mark Morford: I Am Outraged! Are You Not Outraged? Mark Morford 2010
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Verily, when the first images of the perfectly boring new logo -- basically "Gap" in overused Helvetica, with a little blue square hovering just above and to the right -- landed on the Interweb, the outcry hit like a thunderclap made of toenail clippings and old pudding.
Mark Morford: I Am Outraged! Are You Not Outraged? Mark Morford 2010
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He didn't refer to "the war on terror," a phrase overused by his predecessor,
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He didn't refer to "the war on terror," a phrase overused by his predecessor,
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Of all the terms overused on the internet, few are invoked as quickly in heated arguments as
Latest from PALGN 2008
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However, the entire Clinton family has run a duplicitous campaign with an almost overriding goal of damaging the "electibility" (to coin the overused media cliche of 2008) of the likely Democratic nominee, with a possible effect of damaging their party in the process.
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With so many different beliefs about and definitions of success, it seems the word is overused.
Having It All John Assaraf 2003
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Instead, only three unifying concepts were announced: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets -- all vague terms overused by any corporate Republican.
OpEdNews 2010
dontcry commented on the word overused
This is funny. I just "random worded" this word. I think kids today (kids I know, anyway) have overused the word random to the point where I don't think they even know what it means anymore!
November 13, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word overused
Yeah, they use it so randomly.
November 13, 2009
dontcry commented on the word overused
totally
November 13, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word overused
Something I've thought about for a while..."randomness" is a virtue of the 21st century...people are praised for being "funny and random" -- for doing the unexpected, for being able to produce something unconnected out of context..."randomness" is a saving grace in any social situation...normality and conformity are not noticed and not particularly cool.
I'm not sure of all the implications of this, yet...
November 13, 2009
Telofy commented on the word overused
Non-conformity also likes to use “desultory” from time to time.
November 13, 2009
GHibbs commented on the word overused
As a simple verb, past: 'You overused your own personal examples in your paper.'
August 20, 2011