threadbare 的定义
- having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
- wearing threadbare clothes; shabby or poor: a threadbare old man.
- meager, scanty, or poor: a threadbare emotional life.
- hackneyed; trite; ineffectively stale: threadbare arguments.
threadbare 近义词
worn, frayed
trite, corny
threadbare 的近义词 26 个
- musty
- stale
- banal
- bathetic
- cliché
- cliché-ridden
- clichéd
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- dull
- everyday
- familiar
- hackneyed
- imitative
- moth-eaten
- overused
- poor
- set
- stereotyped
- stock
- tedious
- tired
- uncreative
- well-worn
- worn-out
threadbare 的反义词 3 个
更多threadbare例句
- The penguin metaphor construct becomes increasingly threadbare as the seasons progress.
- Because few of the alternatives are ready to be tested, and the bit that can be is so threadbare that marketers wouldn’t learn much.
- Taiwan doesn’t suffer from a threadbare healthcare system or poor government management when it comes to Covid-19.
- I’ll wear it to every party—until it’s threadbare, and then I’m sure I’ll have horror stories connected to it once that happens.
- The Kremlin of course denies this, but such denials are threadbare in the aftermath of at least three high-profile poisonings since 2006 of people opposing the regime or associated with regime opponents.
- Even though there is a threadbare concession stand, overflowing picnic baskets abound.
- Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms.
- Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful.
- On the other hand, the economic model is as threadbare as many of the buildings and much of the island's infrastructure.
- Sequestration tore at our threadbare social safety net, and this deal leaves the damage intact.
- The trick that he hit upon was the stalest, the most threadbare, the most commonplace and vulgar that one can imagine.
- It is used to divert attention from poverty of thought and a threadbare vocabulary.
- Moreover he had torn his threadbare overalls and his hot face was smeared where he had rubbed off the mosquitoes with dirty hands.
- No one should pretend to write upon so threadbare a topic without having at least some novelty of expression.
- The fireplace gave the room a cheerful appearance but she could not fail to notice the threadbare rug, the scanty furniture.