tired
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(a) depleted of strength or energy
- tired mothers with crying babies
- too tired to eat
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(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"