hackneyed, cliched, corny, banal, formulaic, hokey, unoriginal, silly, melodramatic, pretentious, sappy, tiresome, mawkish, vacuous, nonsensical, vapid, puerile, simplistic, maudlin, cheesy, cloying, obtuse, glib, fatuous, laughable, platitudinous, crass, overfamiliar, flippant, childish, sophomoric, uninteresting, shopworn, lame, absurd, bland, preachy, pointless, unentertaining, sententious, pedantic, preposterous, rote, meaningless, treacly, lunkheaded, overwrought, comical, overlong, unimaginative, boring, superfluous, wearisome, repetitious, overdramatic, schmaltzy, condescending, facile, superficial, unobjectionable, insipid, hyperbolic, contentless, cutesy, jejune, ludicrous, risible, cynical, turgid, moronic, perfunctory, stagey, ridiculous, artless, dull, pompous, unquotable, bathetic, wordier, reductive, unfunny, simpleminded, funny, unenlightening, tautological, cringeworthy, uninventive, overdetermined, stagy, overused, stilted, monotonous, oxymoronic, facetious, hoariest, disingenuous, amusing, dopey, tendentious, ineloquent, uncreative, saccharine, pithy, apposite, commonplace, apt, gnomic, familiar, homely, innocuous, terse, uncomplimentary, felicitous, fetched, suggestive, cogent

., banality, bromide, cliche, commonplace, corn, platitude, tritely

stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, well-worn