Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
Worn or faded from being on display in a store.
1 His tone changed, became less puckish; he elegized diversity with a shopworn .
2 There's the shopworn military cliche about every soldier being a sensor.
3 Instead, he attacked Obama's healthcare law with shopworn Republican campaign themes.
4 Chuckling owners trade these quips, each as shopworn as the tools scattered about.
5 They age badly for one thing and quickly look shopworn .
6 Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics.
7 Even in these shopworn quotations the power still remains.
8 I did not want to have a shopworn phrase.
9 Mr. Benson commented on the cheesecake, and Doctor Papineau chimed in with his shopworn joke.
10 She sank into a chair, looking a bit shopworn .
11 They were all a little shopworn and weathered, with narrow windows and flimsy iron balconies.
12 Go into any rental store's cult section and you'll find shopworn copies of numerous Meyer films.
13 He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever.
14 But it was very deeply buried, that ragged, shopworn decency-deeplyenough he had no difficulty ignoring it.
15 They're a bit shopworn , probably-butwe're considerably better off with 'em in our hands than in hers.
16 Such a simple, brown hat she found, a little shopworn ; the long, warm coat she bought matched perfectly.
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