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[ UK /tˈa‍ɪmwɔːn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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

How To Use timeworn In A Sentence

  • Somewhere around this point, we usually get sucked into another timeworn argument which states that trans women are reinforcing gender stereotypes by transitioning to a female binary spectrum identity. Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
  • Running with the children of the village through meadow grass, among the mounds and hillocks, chasing along the timeworn runs of fox and rabbit through the ruins. GRAVE CONCERNS • by Oscar Windsor-Smith
  • parroting some timeworn axiom
  • Film stars and directors, business magnates and corporate houses are now keen to acquire timeworn artifacts.
  • At the same time, he takes care to scuff his compositions with small marks, so that the studied perfection of his geometry is offset by the imperfection of the scratch or splotch on the surface that can recall timeworn linoleum floors.
  • Mullen repeated the timeworn invocation that Beijing and Washington should work together on "broader, and common, goals" on the global stage, after asserting that China was now a world power. The Trust Gap in U.S.-China Relations
  • It is a fresh, visually stunning assessment of a current design trend effectively erasing the timeworn divide between creators and consumers. Dorothy Spears: TechnoCRAFT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  • Because sometimes, it seems to me as if all of the big moments in my life can be traced back to the gorgeous, timeworn stories of opera. Skipping a Beat
  • If the skin looks great after dermabrasion or plastic surgery but the whites and pupils of the eye look more timeworn, that may make age seem more indefinite, but not unambiguously younger. Shock of Gray
  • Of course, we have our petty absurdities – Sir Dave Richards's position as both FA board member and Premier League chairman is a timeworn example – but, by crikey, don't they lack the scale and imagination of this? Who next for Sepp Blatter's Fifa brains trust – Cheryl Cole? | Marina Hyde
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