hackneyed
adjectiveMade stale or unoriginal through excessive use.
Stale through overuse
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Clear all filtersMade stale or unoriginal through excessive use.
Stale through overuse
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Someone who stays near a person or group mainly to obtain personal benefit.
Lacking a clear plan, method, or orderly arrangement.
Relating to pleasure or the experience of enjoyment.
A model of adaptation in which gains or losses in happiness may fade as people become accustomed to changed circumstances.
Adaptation in happiness
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Treating pleasure as a central aim of life or conduct.
To pay careful attention to advice, a warning, or another signal.
Dominant influence or leadership over others.
A belief sharply opposed to an established doctrine or accepted view.
Reluctance or delay in acting because of doubt or uncertainty.
Reluctance or uncertainty
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An arrangement of people or things in ranked levels.
Using power without proper regard for other people's rights or concerns.
Disregarding others' rights
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A sermon or a lecture offering moral advice.
Consisting of similar elements or having a relatively uniform composition.
Relating to the cultivation of gardens or plants.
Concerning garden cultivation
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Strong ill will, antagonism, or active opposition.
Deliberate exaggeration used for effect.
Marked by exaggerated language; in mathematics, relating to a hyperbola or certain related structures.
Exaggerated in expression
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A model of time preference in which the value assigned to a delayed outcome falls sharply at short delays and more gradually at longer delays.
Delay-sensitive discount model
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Claiming principles or standards that one's own behavior contradicts.
Acting contrary to professed beliefs while presenting oneself as principled.
Contradicting professed principles
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A proposed explanation or assumption offered for examination or testing.
Proposed explanation
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Proposed for consideration without being established as fact.
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