Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shopworn"
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) 1.7 (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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