shopworn

  • (s) worn or faded from being on display in a store
    • shopworn merchandise at half price
    shopsoiled,
  • (s) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    • bromidic sermons
    • his remarks were trite and commonplace
    • hackneyed phrases
    • a stock answer
    • repeating threadbare jokes
    • parroting some timeworn axiom
    • the trite metaphor "hard as nails"
    banal, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, tired, well-worn, commonplace,

Synonyms

shopsoiled banal hackneyed old-hat stock threadbare timeworn trite tired well-worn commonplace

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