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Meanings of timeworn in English

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.

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Usage of timeworn in English
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Their escorts in varied suits of timeworn finery, the prisoners in rags.
Blood Meridian
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Like all the others, it was completely intact, if a little timeworn.
Shade's children
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That was another timeworn statement, but it served its purpose admirably.
Secret Sanction
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Soon, Fred was busy deploying that timeworn bureaucratic weapon, the memo.
Priceless: how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen tr...
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She crashed down onto the timeworn concrete floor, grazing her hands and wrists.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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Who ever thinks of Petrarch as the old, timeworn man?
"My Novel" — Volume 08
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Others regarded it as a death blow to Churchill's timeworn "special relationship".
The Guardian
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The citation of spousal hesitation is, of course, a timeworn trope in American presidential politics.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
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It signalled, too, a freshness of approach to timeworn themes of the Irish short story.
The Irish Times
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You might fit. A timeworn joke: at five-feet-seven, George is four inches shorter than him.
Robin and ruby
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A timeworn crook trick, to avoid revealing themselves in the light while doing dark deeds.
Death angel
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Yes, it was timeworn, and blotted by use.
Broken Circle
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Bereft of sound justifications for his father-in-law's record, Kushner fell back onto a timeworn conservative narrative.
NY Magazine
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Its timeworn prices and postcard-perfect coastline have prompted comparisons to Spain as it was 50 years ago.
News.com.au
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Gray, timeworn rocks lay piled loosely about, or overtoppled the just visible byways of the red fox.
Wake-Robin
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Others grate against their own timeworn fabric (Danny Boy).
The Irish Times
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Timeworn through the time