trite
TRITEadjMeaning used so often that it is no longer interesting
Memory hook TRITE: TRIED and TRIED and TRIED. Grandpa tells his favorite joke for the hundredth time, and the whole family groans: it has been tried too many times. The joke is trite.
“Every cloud has a silver lining” felt trite to Maya right after she lost the match.
In context Her early poems were full of trite images, roses as red as fire and eyes like stars, but her later work was fresh and surprising.
Similar overused, hackneyed, stale, clichéd
Opposite original, fresh, novel
From Latin tritus, “worn,” from terere, “to rub”: a trite phrase has been rubbed smooth by use.