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shopworn |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shopworn \Shop"worn`\, a. Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shopworn adj 1: worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price" [syn: {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}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn}, {tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
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