It's become the most overworked and useless word in commentary.

She's a lady - if you don't mind an overworked word.

Sorry to use an overworked word, but one can only describe all this as brutal.

New must be one of the most overworked words in an advertising agency's vocabulary.

Equality is an overworked word, but to me it meant sharing the income, chores and child care.

Fantastic; that was a very overworked word when any aspect of Colossus was considered.

Colt thought that 'elite' was the most overworked word in the military dictionary.

We might well give the overworked, neatly tied word a rest; a set of proposals might be worth a try.

Probably the most overworked word in any description of the British prison system over the last decade or more has been 'crisis'.

She complained about the use of that highly overworked word "community".