outworn
Example Sentences
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So, the high temperature of 62 seemed an obvious anachronism, an outdated and outworn remnant of earlier times.
From Washington Post
And just as she had outworn her welcome in the USSR, Stingray said her jaunts in and out didn’t sit well with U.S. officials, either.
From Fox News
“The prevailing assumption is that culture is an outworn fiction,” wrote Hilton Kramer, a critic at the New York Times; the show was an effort “to demonstrate that art was obsolete”.
From Economist
If it shook confidence — if you now see Gross as an aging has-been trying to keep up rather than the genius trying to author his next great resurgence — then the fund has outworn its welcome.
From Seattle Times
But it is all Miss America, an outworn relic of a very different America, has left.
From Economist
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.