adjective
- Worn or faded from being on display in a store.
- usage: "shopworn merchandise at half price"
- synonyms: shopsoiled
- Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
- usage: "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'"
- synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
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