shopworn
About 0.05 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.; shop-soiled.
The handbag looks nice, but shopworn.
- adjective Not fresh or new.
- adjective Of an idea, a piece or writing, etc.: repeated so often as to have become uninteresting; clichéd, overused, tired.
- adjective Of an object: faded, shabby.
Similar words
timeworn well-worn worn tired threadbare unoriginal banal hackneyed trite shopsoiled
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and angel goods or merchandise but phrases phrase cliches
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