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Shopworn

adjective

Worn or faded from being on display in a store. Synonym: shopsoiled.

Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn. "His remarks were trite and commonplace" , "Hackneyed phrases" , "A stock answer" , "Repeating threadbare jokes" , "Parroting some timeworn axiom" , "The trite metaphor 'hard as nails'"

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"Shopworn" Quotes from Famous Books

... there'd be fifty. The white people are claiming now that Campbell didn't stop with robbery and murder. A special edition of the Morning Chronicle, just out, suggests a further purpose, and has all the old shopworn cant about race purity and supremacy and imperative necessity, which always comes to the front whenever it is sought to justify some outrage on the colored folks. The blood of the whites is up, ...

— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt

Words linked to "Shopworn" : unoriginal, worn