shopworn
shop wawrn
- 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.
- In the 1980s the Democratic Leadership Council, organized as an affront to party orthodoxy, played an influential role in steering it away from shopworn liberalism and toward a .