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[ shop-wawrn, ‐wohrn ] / ˈʃɒpˌwɔrn, ‐ˌwoʊrn / SEE SYNONYMS FOR shopworn ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveworn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store. trite; hackneyed. Origin of shopwornFirst recorded in 1870–75; shop + worn Words nearby shopwornshopsoiled, shop steward, shoptalk, shopwalker, shopwindow, shopworn, shoran, shore, shorebird, shore bug, shore crab Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shopwornLeave it to the Satanists to bring new fun to the shopworn church-state debate. Satan Is Coming to Oklahoma|Michelle Cottle|December 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST This brings us back to the most shopworn cliché in the Middle East peace process bag: confidence-building measures. John Kerry's Mission Impossible?|Hussein Ibish|April 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST Jennie does not learn that home is where the heart is or anything so shopworn. Maurice Sendak Didn’t Just Make Books for Children, but for Everyone|Malcolm Jones|May 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST How does Perry go North with the shopworn baggage of Johnny Reb superiority and an unapologetic evangelical paternalism? GOP Still Has No Chance|John Batchelor|August 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But the idea that technology makes us free has now become a shopworn notion in need of drastic revision. Death by Texting|Lee Siegel|September 4, 2009|DAILY BEAST I had a feeling that the end and slice would lie around and get shopworn if I did not take them. The Car That Went Abroad|Albert Bigelow Paine He was long limbed and awkward and useless, and homely as a shopworn fifty-cent yellow plush manicure set. That Pup|Ellis Parker Butler Amid a mob of shopworn public men, here was one who had at least the charm of novelty. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I|Burton J. Hendrick He looks around helplessly as if searching for new words to clothe an old, shopworn phrase. This Side of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald Even now, shopworn as she was, Gloria could have a fairly wide range of suitors should something happen to him. The Doorway|Evelyn E. Smith
British Dictionary definitions for shopworn
adjectivethe US word for shopsoiled Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to shopwornstale, trite, frayed, tarnished, faded |