Overused and unoriginal (9)

I believe the answer is:

hackneyed

(Other definitions for hackneyed that I've seen before include "pedestrian" , "Banal" , "Overfamiliar through overuse" , "Trite (expression)" , "corny" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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