timeworn
IPA: tˈaɪmwˈɔrn
adjective
- Showing the effects of wear due to long use.
- Banal or trite; hackneyed or overused.
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Examples of "timeworn" in Sentences
- Because sometimes, it seems to me as if all of the big moments in my life can be traced back to the gorgeous, timeworn stories of opera.
- It is a fresh, visually stunning assessment of a current design trend effectively erasing the timeworn divide between creators and consumers.
- Running with the children of the village through meadow grass, among the mounds and hillocks, chasing along the timeworn runs of fox and rabbit through the ruins.
- Jeff Parker has established himself as a smart writer of a variety of snappy, satisfying genre comics, even finding fresh approaches to timeworn franchise characters.
- Mullen repeated the timeworn invocation that Beijing and Washington should work together on "broader, and common, goals" on the global stage, after asserting that China was now a world power.
- Somewhere around this point, we usually get sucked into another timeworn argument which states that trans women are reinforcing gender stereotypes by transitioning to a female binary spectrum identity.
- Of course, we have our petty absurdities – Sir Dave Richards's position as both FA board member and Premier League chairman is a timeworn example – but, by crikey, don't they lack the scale and imagination of this?
- Even those dramas founded on more mainstream set-ups – new cop series Chicago Code and The Closer, for example, starring, respectively, Jennifer Beals (47) and Kyra Sedgwick (45) – appear to have jettisoned the timeworn notion of the gutsy dame forced to overcome prejudice in a traditionally male environment.
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