shopworn

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  1. adjective Tarnished, frayed, faded, or otherwise defective from being on display in a store.
  2. adjective Worn-out, as from overuse; trite: shopworn anecdotes.

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  • Sometimes he has shopworn or slight blems available at reduced prices. —  Mandolin Cafe News
  • The lyrics almost everywhere on the record are first-person and a bit shopworn, though, which might or might not have to do with this being such a one-person undertaking. —  DOA
  • Lots of heat on rightwing blogs accusing Obama of disparaging Sarah Palin by using a shopworn ... —  The Daou Report
  • Wladimir Klitschko must have been a very good boy this year, because Saturday at the SAP Arena in Mannheim, Germany, the IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight champion received a 253. 5-pound Christmas present in the form of shopworn former heavyweight champ Hasim Rahman, who managed to stay upright for six rounds and 44 seconds before Klitschko took him out and ended a one-sided bout. —  Doghouse Boxing News
  • Burr Steers, whose only previous feature was the dysfunctional-family comedy "Igby Goes Down," does a competent directing job but the story is too shopworn and predictable to hold your interest for very long.
 

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