shopworn

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
shopworn
    adj 1: worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn
           merchandise at half price" [syn: {shopworn},
           {shopsoiled}]
    2: 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'" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace}, {hackneyed},
       {old-hat}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
       {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shopworn \Shop"worn`\, a.
   Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a
   shop.
   [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "shopworn":
      bare, cliche, cliched, deep-worn, dog-eared, hackneyed, overused,
      overworked, sere, shelfworn, stale, threadbare, timeworn, tired,
      well-worn, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads,
      worn-down, worn-out

    

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