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Definition of shopworn in English: shopwornadjectiveˈʃɒpwɔːnˈʃɑpˌwɔrn North American (of an article) made dirty or imperfect by being displayed or handled in a shop; shop-soiled. he brought out some shopworn lettuce figurative he appraised his brown but slightly shopworn body in the mirror Example sentencesExamples - They had been effective last week, but were suddenly shopworn.
- The problem with revenge stories is that they're a staple of American cinema and because of that, the genre is a little shopworn.
- The town itself is a wonderful example of a lived-in, somewhat shopworn, urban relic.
- But how often do they look closely at every shopworn assessment, and how often do they challenge every bit of published analysis?
- His bag of tricks is so small, and so shopworn, it's almost as if he's writing the same column every week.
- Photographs taken in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1993 reflect Lawton's palpable empathy for his shopworn subjects, two years after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
- Now almost a decade old, Jay's brash brand of rap has become shopworn.
- Over and over, he would take over a shopworn company, install new managers, build it up, list it on the stock market, and make stacks of money for himself and his investors.
- The rhetoric that accompanies high-minded discussions of the deficit has grown shopworn.
- Yet in Iowa over the last few days, he has begun to appear more shopworn than stirring.
- As she observes, that shopworn notion has been complicated into near oblivion by artists responding to new social realities in the People's Republic.
- Already shopworn by 1966, the Munich analogy never dies.
- What I found was just another recycling of all the shopworn thriller clichés and ‘hostile alien’ stereotypes that permeate the studios.
- These strategies, I would argue, are entirely familiar and slightly shopworn.
- His drama uses the skeleton of a shopworn story to say very little about love and a lot about a rarely documented locale.
- Moving away from the shopworn rhetoric of the 1930s and creating an agenda and program relevant to today's work force will do more to add to union membership rolls than new laws, Johnson said.
- But when they reached for substance, they tended to brandish shopworn proposals targeted at narrow and increasingly elderly groups of voters.
- Where Intolerable Cruelty is stylized and fun, Laws of Attraction is shopworn and flat.
- The author is convinced that the officers should be taught to think originally, to reject shopworn patterns and approaches, and to avoid bureaucratic quagmire.
- Those shopworn clichés that had been repeated day in and day out had no place in this celebration.
Definition of shopworn in US English: shopwornadjectiveˈSHäpˌwôrnˈʃɑpˌwɔrn North American (of an article) made dirty or imperfect by being displayed or handled in a store. he brought out some shopworn lettuce British term shop-soiled figurative he appraised his brown but slightly shopworn body in the mirror Example sentencesExamples - These strategies, I would argue, are entirely familiar and slightly shopworn.
- His drama uses the skeleton of a shopworn story to say very little about love and a lot about a rarely documented locale.
- What I found was just another recycling of all the shopworn thriller clichés and ‘hostile alien’ stereotypes that permeate the studios.
- Already shopworn by 1966, the Munich analogy never dies.
- As she observes, that shopworn notion has been complicated into near oblivion by artists responding to new social realities in the People's Republic.
- The problem with revenge stories is that they're a staple of American cinema and because of that, the genre is a little shopworn.
- Moving away from the shopworn rhetoric of the 1930s and creating an agenda and program relevant to today's work force will do more to add to union membership rolls than new laws, Johnson said.
- They had been effective last week, but were suddenly shopworn.
- Where Intolerable Cruelty is stylized and fun, Laws of Attraction is shopworn and flat.
- The rhetoric that accompanies high-minded discussions of the deficit has grown shopworn.
- The town itself is a wonderful example of a lived-in, somewhat shopworn, urban relic.
- The author is convinced that the officers should be taught to think originally, to reject shopworn patterns and approaches, and to avoid bureaucratic quagmire.
- Yet in Iowa over the last few days, he has begun to appear more shopworn than stirring.
- Photographs taken in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1993 reflect Lawton's palpable empathy for his shopworn subjects, two years after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
- But how often do they look closely at every shopworn assessment, and how often do they challenge every bit of published analysis?
- Over and over, he would take over a shopworn company, install new managers, build it up, list it on the stock market, and make stacks of money for himself and his investors.
- Those shopworn clichés that had been repeated day in and day out had no place in this celebration.
- Now almost a decade old, Jay's brash brand of rap has become shopworn.
- But when they reached for substance, they tended to brandish shopworn proposals targeted at narrow and increasingly elderly groups of voters.
- His bag of tricks is so small, and so shopworn, it's almost as if he's writing the same column every week.
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