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shopworn

/shop-wawrn, ‐wohrn/US // ˈʃɒpˌwɔrn, ‐ˌwoʊrn //UK // (ˈʃɒpˌwɔːn) //

衣服,衣服穿在身上,衣服穿戴,衣服穿在身上的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
    • : trite; hackneyed.

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Examples

  • Space—as people say over and over—is hard, but the shopworn nature of the phrase makes it no less true.

  • Leave it to the Satanists to bring new fun to the shopworn church-state debate.

  • This brings us back to the most shopworn cliché in the Middle East peace process bag: confidence-building measures.

  • Jennie does not learn that home is where the heart is or anything so shopworn.

  • How does Perry go North with the shopworn baggage of Johnny Reb superiority and an unapologetic evangelical paternalism?

  • But the idea that technology makes us free has now become a shopworn notion in need of drastic revision.

  • Amid a mob of shopworn public men, here was one who had at least the charm of novelty.

  • Was any thing shopworn, moth eaten, or out of fashion, the spectacles told it as plainly as if they had spoken aloud.

  • She had her eyes on two, one somewhat shopworn, and the other a bankrupt; and in training, she had one just coming of age.

  • I had a feeling that the end and slice would lie around and get shopworn if I did not take them.

  • Did you know he could make the ace of spades look shopworn and weary at thirty paces with one of those toys?