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shopworn

[ shop-wawrn, ‑-·É´Ç³ó°ù²Ô ]

adjective

  1. worn worn or marred, as goods exposed and handled in a store.
  2. trite; hackneyed.


shopworn

/ ˈʃɒ±èËŒ·ÉÉ”Ë²Ô /

adjective

  1. the US word for shopsoiled
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Origin of shopworn1

First recorded in 1870–75; shop + worn
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His events combine the zeal of a religious revival meeting with a blunt political message: that Mr. Orban, 61, and his shopworn opponents in entrenched opposition parties have been around too long.

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Although she states repeatedly that she doesn’t want to rely on the shopworn story of motherhood as the ultimate expression of the female experience, some passages flirt with this trope.

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“Knowledge is power†might be a shopworn cliché, but when it comes to emergencies, it’s absolutely true.

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Yet his portraits often seem constrained within narrow, shopworn categories.

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That's what they were allowed to be, because — and I'll trot out some shopworn industry phrases here — it was "part of their process," "how they accessed their art," or "how their genius manifested," etc.

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