Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Showing the effects of long use or wear: timeworn lanes.
- adj. Used too often; trite: timeworn expressions.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Examples
“Somewhere around this point, we usually get sucked into another timeworn argument which states that trans women are reinforcing gender stereotypes by transitioning to a female binary spectrum identity.”
Yet another trans 101, in which Helen tells cis people What’s What
“It is a fresh, visually stunning assessment of a current design trend effectively erasing the timeworn divide between creators and consumers.”
The Huffington Post: Dorothy Spears: TechnoCRAFT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
“Even those dramas founded on more mainstream set-ups – new cop series Chicago Code and The Closer, for example, starring, respectively, Jennifer Beals (47) and Kyra Sedgwick (45) – appear to have jettisoned the timeworn notion of the gutsy dame forced to overcome prejudice in a traditionally male environment.”
“Of course, we have our petty absurdities – Sir Dave Richards's position as both FA board member and Premier League chairman is a timeworn example – but, by crikey, don't they lack the scale and imagination of this?”
The Guardian: Who next for Sepp Blatter's Fifa brains trust – Cheryl Cole? | Marina Hyde
“Because sometimes, it seems to me as if all of the big moments in my life can be traced back to the gorgeous, timeworn stories of opera.”
“Jeff Parker has established himself as a smart writer of a variety of snappy, satisfying genre comics, even finding fresh approaches to timeworn franchise characters.”
“Mullen repeated the timeworn invocation that Beijing and Washington should work together on "broader, and common, goals" on the global stage, after asserting that China was now a world power.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Trust Gap in U.S.-China Relations
“Running with the children of the village through meadow grass, among the mounds and hillocks, chasing along the timeworn runs of fox and rabbit through the ruins.”
“The role-playing is a familiar practice for job hunters, but the weekly sessions at the Career Network Ministry reach beyond timeworn employment strategies.”
“Their timeworn end found Colin, naked, as was his bedtime preference, pressed to the bed, sweat-fretted, and silent.”
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
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Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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Necessary?
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I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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faded glory
days of yore, once upon a time, obsolete, passé, cliché, démodé, jaded, former glory, bygone, ruined, ancient, decrepit and 45 more...
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