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shopworn::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
shopworn::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | shopsoiled |
shopworn merchandise at half price.
Examples of shopworn
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Let it also be noted that in this case poetic justice isn't just a shopworn trope.
From the theatlantic.com
A couple of moulting turkeys looked a little shopworn, showing some pale skin.
From the stltoday.com
This thing rides like it's sitting on the shopworn springs from a cathouse mattress.
From the online.wsj.com
Neither are the other shopworn themes of angst, betrayal, death and beauty.
From the bloomberg.com
The marquee actors appear for just long enough to recite shopworn lines.
From the time.com
Again, I expected to find the usual full magazine of shopworn imagery, but I fired blanks.
From the sacbee.com
The rhetoric that accompanies high-minded discussions of the deficit has grown shopworn.
From the usatoday.com
Gephardt was too shopworn, Lieberman too conservative and Clark too untested to survive.
From the usatoday.com
Yet in Iowa over the last few days, Dean has begun to appear more shopworn than stirring.
From the usatoday.com
- Worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price"
- Banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
- Shopworn is a 1932 romantic drama film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Regis Toomey.
- A fighter who is slowing down after a long career.
