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shopworn
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price" [syn: shopsoiled ] repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 used, as a sample item in a retail store 2 not fresh; tired or cliché 3 faded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shopworn \Shop"worn`\, a. Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Exotic dancers, taxi drivers, cigarette girls, lawyers of the shopworn sort with dandruff on their lapels.
Wikipedia
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Shopworn is a 1932 American Pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Nick Grinde and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Regis Toomey . Written by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin , based on a story by Sarah Y. Mason , the film is about a poor hardworking waitress ...
Usage examples of shopworn.
But in his exuberant speeches he missed no opportunity to vilify Schuschnigg or to peddle the by now shopworn lies about how the Anschluss was achieved.
All the vegetation, big and little, has a battered, shopworn look, trunks leaning this way and that, huge leafstalks bent and dangling, gnawed boughs hanging like broken arms.
However, the old girl was too shopworn for further mischief and was spending her days of decline as a scrubwoman in the skyscraper.
A shopworn end table held dog-eared copies of boxing magazines, and pictures of boxers covered walls that cried out for fresh paint.
As far as he is concerned, this fulsomely praised Jenny -- a single glance is enough -- is some shopworn dancing girl.
On the desk was the framed photograph of Lown and Bolin formally posed on a small lawn on some campus somewhere, each half turned toward the camera and half facing the other, hands behind backs, Edna's left leg extended a bit, Lester's right leg likewise set forward, a large and not very interesting jug positioned evenly between the standing figures (solely for compositional effect, it was clear), the artificial dignity of the picture enhanced by the fading gray tones and the shopworn frame.
Her son, Peter III, a slightly shopworn Peter Pan, whose features were familiar to Grace Gormet through years of stereogravure, dressed in every conceivable costume affected by the richly idle in their pastimes, had been so thoughtless as to pick the afternoon before his mother's most important social function to bung himself up - seriously.
Her son, Peter III, a slightly shopworn Peter Pan, whose features were familiar to Grace Gormet through years of stereogravure, dressed in every conceivable costume affected by the richly idle in their pastimes, had been so thoughtless as to pick the afternoon before his mother's most important social function to bung himself up -- seriously.