cliched, trite, formulaic, unoriginal, melodramatic, hokey, banal, maudlin, vacuous, shopworn, corny, mawkish, unimaginative, puerile, cheesy, sappy, lame, tiresome, treacly, unfunny, simplistic, glib, crass, nonsensical, overfamiliar, vapid, pretentious, fatuous, schmaltzy, cutesy, cloying, sophomoric, hoariest, insipid, rote, sententious, platitudinous, stale, overdetermined, overwrought, bland, bathetic, artless, saccharine, turgid, silly, dopey, hacky, leaden, unentertaining, anachronistic, cynical, comical, preachy, pithy, unsubtle, cringeworthy, risible, witless, uninteresting, jejune, slapstick, unamusing, monotonous, humerous, mirthless, absurdist, unaffecting, nauseating, moronic, grandiloquent, punny, unquotable, execrable, wearisome, obtuse, repetitious, uncreative, stilted, parodic, jokey, lunkheaded, snide, mordant, contentless, facile, mealymouthed, reductive, snappy, stagey, uninventive, overlong, farcical, escapist, stagy, pantomimic, laughable, filmic, lachrymose, clever, didactic, hyperbolic, familiar, commonplace, apt, apposite, homely, uncomplimentary, derogatory, farfetched, felicitous, fetched, innocuous, vaguer, arresting

beginning, staleness, triteness, warhorse

stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn