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• s  worn or faded from being on display in a store
  shopworn merchandise at half price
• s  repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• The tools of the political trade seem shopworn this year.
• But I don't think anyone notices the shopworn decor or the security guard, for that matter.
• This could be the year when the most shopworn electoral cliche could be turned upside down.

• shopsoiled
• banal
• commonplace
• hackneyed
• old-hat
• stock
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• trite
• well-worn

News & Articles

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• Mania Review: Despicable Me 2
   I enjoyed the first Despicable Me as a mildly effective babysitting movie; I thought its world was too unformed and its scenario too shopworn, but I loved its grumpy villain-made-good Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) and his three adorable charges. Now comes the inevitable sequel...
  July 3, 2013 - Mania

Quotes

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• Bill McKibben in Council on Foreign Relations
  However, environmentalist Bill McKibben, writing in the New York Review of Books, calls Lomborg's analysis "weak, a farrago of straw men and carefully selected, shopworn data that holds up poorly in light of the most recent research, both scientific...
• Charlie Chaplin in Balkan Travellers
  In 1910 Charlie Chaplin, who attended a burlesque show in Chicago, described it as "consisting of a coterie of rough-and-tumble comedians supported by twenty or more chorus girls. Some were pretty, others shopworn. Some of the comedians were funny,...
• Teddy Atlas in ESPN
  I think Cotto's damaged goods,ESPN boxing analyst Teddy Atlas said. "He's a little shopworn. The fight for Foreman could be even easier than people think."