threadbare
IPA: θrˈɛdbɛr
adjective
- Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out.
- (figurative)
- In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty.
- Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
- (archaic or obsolete) Of a person: wearing clothes of threadbare (sense 1) material; hence, impoverished, poor.
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Examples of "threadbare" in Sentences
- You have such a threadbare bag of tricks.
- His attire is somewhat threadbare and shabby.
- It's got a threadbare and depressing history tab.
- That's singularly threadbare and ignoble reasoning.
- It would leave the project articles rather threadbare.
- His threadbare overcoat is often the butt of their jokes.
- His life may be threadbare, but his imagination remains fertile.
- I don't get it, and this article is threadbare and doesn't say anything.
- If not then that's fine, but it just seems a bit threadbare at the moment.
- If no reliable sources exist, then claims to notability are threadbare at best.
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