Actual and Hackneyed

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Actual adjective - Existing in fact and not merely as a possibility.

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Hackneyed and actual are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hackneyed" instead an adjective "Actual".

Hackneyed adjective - Used or heard so often as to be dull.

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Actual and hackneyed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Actual" instead an adjective "Hackneyed".

Nearby Word: hackney

More than that, though, a lot of the plotlines felt slack and uninteresting, with Troy and Britta suffering a major Shipping Bed Death as the writers fumbled with giving them actual chemistry, and Chang's Faking Amnesia plot being about as obvious and hackneyed as they came.

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