trite

modif.

trite is applied to something, especially an expression or idea, which through repeated use or application has lost its original freshness and impressive force (e.g., ``like a bolt from the blue""); hackneyed refers to such expressions which through constant use have become virtually meaningless (e.g., ``last but not least""); stereotyped applies to those fixed expressions which seem invariably to be called up in certain situations (e.g., ``I point with pride"" in a political oration); commonplace is used of any obvious or conventional remark or idea (e.g., ``it isn't the heat, it's the humidity"")