figurative. Of words or ideas: Hackneyed by use or repetition; trite.

Deliberate, intentional. Of phrases, forms of expression: Deliberately composed, not spontaneously arising. Also, customary, ‘stereotyped.’ Cf. 5d.

depreciative. Overly used; trite, banal, clichéd.

attributive. Applied allusively to maxims of a conventional or commonplace character; more widely, to processes, action, or conduct of an exemplary…

That is driven or worked too hard. Also in extended use: that is too active, excited or intense.

transferred and figurative. Worked out, exhausted, used up; in quot. 1548, exhausting. Also, of language, literature, etc.: hackneyed, trite.