shopworn
IPA: ʃˈɑpwɔrn
adjective
- Having been used, as a sample item in a retail store.
- Faded.
- (figuratively) Not fresh; tired or cliché.
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Examples of "shopworn" in Sentences
- Some clothes in the store are shopworn.
- The movie feels a little shopworn to me.
- He also beat shopworn puncher Jimmy Thunder.
- There's a slightly shopworn quality to the showmanship.
- Under business terminology, there is a request for shopworn expression.
- As for your statements about CRA, you are reciting shopworn liberal dogma.
- As screenwriter, his insights about reaching the middle of one's life are shopworn.
- Gerard Butler makes a valiant effort to make the shopworn plot seem fresh and original.
- The film's shopworn script is a scrapbook of films featuring men failing to leave adolescence behind.
- The bishops' refusal to trade in their shopworn scare tactics in favor of enlightened discourse clearly fits the description.
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