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View definitions for wear threadbare

wear threadbare

verb as in fret

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Example Sentences

It takes courage to wear threadbare clothes while your comrades dress in broadcloth.

Wear threadbare clothes if you must, but never carry an inaccurate watch.

He was content to wear threadbare cloth, but adhered most obstinately to a prejudice in favour of clean linen.

It is a task to wear threadbare the teacher's patience and to do all kinds of things to the temper.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wear threadbare, such as: chafe, abrade, corrode, erode, excoriate, and fray.

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

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