[
US
/ˈʃɑpˌwɔɹn/
]
ADJECTIVE
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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
a stock answer
his remarks were trite and commonplace
parroting some timeworn axiom
bromidic sermons
the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
repeating threadbare jokes
hackneyed phrases
bromidic sermons
a stock answer -
worn or faded from being on display in a store
shopworn merchandise at half price
How To Use shopworn In A Sentence
- The town itself is a wonderful example of a lived-in, somewhat shopworn, urban relic.
- These strategies, I would argue, are entirely familiar and slightly shopworn.
- But as times and tastes changed, it needed a catalyst to move beyond the shopworn stereotypes of LAPD cops as either by-the-book straight arrows or rakish, rule-breaking mavericks.
- shopworn merchandise at half price
- The rhetoric that accompanies high-minded discussions of the deficit has grown shopworn.
- Those shopworn clichés that had been repeated day in and day out had no place in this celebration.
- hit-the-grit" circus, and were writing to the big shows for prices on superannuated or "shopworn" animals. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905
- That hatemongers still peddle their shopworn wares, disrupting lives, pitting neighbor against neighbor.
- The beach garland is sunburned, a silt shopworn, hot, as well as full of waste -- no place for upon foot barefoot. Archive 2009-11-01
- But when they reached for substance, they tended to brandish shopworn proposals targeted at narrow and increasingly elderly groups of voters.
