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shopworn

adjective as in overused

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For Martinger’s first UE5 project, he decided to create a carpenter’s cellar, complete with shopworn tools and rough surfaces.

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Space—as people say over and over—is hard, but the shopworn nature of the phrase makes it no less true.

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Leave it to the Satanists to bring new fun to the shopworn church-state debate.

This brings us back to the most shopworn cliché in the Middle East peace process bag: confidence-building measures.

Jennie does not learn that home is where the heart is or anything so shopworn.

How does Perry go North with the shopworn baggage of Johnny Reb superiority and an unapologetic evangelical paternalism?

But the idea that technology makes us free has now become a shopworn notion in need of drastic revision.

Amid a mob of shopworn public men, here was one who had at least the charm of novelty.

Was any thing shopworn, moth eaten, or out of fashion, the spectacles told it as plainly as if they had spoken aloud.

She had her eyes on two, one somewhat shopworn, and the other a bankrupt; and in training, she had one just coming of age.

I had a feeling that the end and slice would lie around and get shopworn if I did not take them.

Did you know he could make the ace of spades look shopworn and weary at thirty paces with one of those toys?

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shopworn, such as: frayed, stale, tarnished, trite, and faded.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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