overused

past tense of overuse
as in hackneyed
to use so much as to make less appealing she had overused that joke to the point where it was eliciting groans and not guffaws

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“Overused.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overused. Accessed 27 Mar. 2023.

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