shopworn

IPA: ʃˈɑpwɔrn

Examples of "shopworn" in Sentences

"hit-the-grit" circus, and were writing to the big shows for prices on superannuated or "shopworn" animals.
Or better yet, might we construct a model that is both consistent with the evidence and more beneficial than either of those shopworn choices?
One tiny mark, a slight rip or fold, any sign that any human being had touched the book and the publishers would call it shopworn and not refund any money for an unsold book.
And the nuclear priesthood to borrow a phrase from the father of our "Nuclear Navy", Admiral Hyman Rickover still uses many words and concepts that were already shopworn decades ago.
In my opinion, Richard Powers in The Echo Maker is attempting to retain something of the experimentation of modernist psychological realism -- or at least its goal -- but as I indicated in my post on the novel, its lackluster execution in this book is for me another signal that the technique has become increasingly shopworn.