Adjective : outworn ideas; outworn methods. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object), : a well-made product that outwears its competition. ,The daily toil had soon outworn him. ,Perhaps he will outwear those eccentricities. ,A child outwears clothes quickly. ,trying to outwear the hours by reading. From Dictionary.com.
An objection is not "outworn" until answered, and to speak of the demise of a generally accepted theory is hardly scientific. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
And call outworn factitious things. From Wordnik.com. [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference
And now his sword is fallen, and he lies outworn and wan. From Wordnik.com. [Hippolytus/The Bacchae] Reference
With wounds all outworn; some on slaughter-field welter'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Strange how we use phrases which have outworn their meaning!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Though, outworn with sorrow, with hours of torturous anguish. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
We cling to outworn prejudice and fear those who are unfamiliar. From Wordnik.com. [Commencement Speech at the University of Notre Dame] Reference
And by the way exactly what are those "outworn ideas of the left"?. From Wordnik.com. [In Two-Minute Ad, Obama Directly Addresses Voters About The Economy] Reference
That is the kind that gives most comfort to the outworn Tommy or Sammy. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
Tommy, aged seven -- Because he has outworn everything he hasn't outgrown. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
'Beloved Prior,' he said, 'thou art outworn with the care of thy community. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
"Handsome is as handsome does," she said, repeating an ancient outworn adage. From Wordnik.com. [Zombie Lover]
That dealt with, he planned to reduce the Spartans, those relics of an outworn past. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
The outworn Aeneadae hasten to run for the nearest shore, and turn to the coast of Libya. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
The commitment I seek is not to outworn views but to old values that will never wear out. From Wordnik.com. [1980 Democratic National Convention Address] Reference
Vigour and energetic enterprise flourish only where daily anxieties have had to be outworn. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
True they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Yet Nature never grows outworn, -- is unwearied in the bounty which she bestows on the seeker. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
The Revolution as the last great attempt to reinstate the full Roman ideal in its outworn form. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
So the heroes, though outworn with toil, quickly backed their ship from the land in sore dismay. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
As with our own bodies, the outworn garb will be laid aside, and the spirit will find a finer form. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
A waning half moon was fading out against the growing light and soon would be setting, old and outworn. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Yet more than one pair of these have I outworn, and many more shall I outwear ere my journeys are ended. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Business was almost put away, but the evening was not yet outworn, there would be pleasure after business. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
Not to defend some outworn creed, and some members of both entertain the suspicion that all creeds are outworn. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Hetty put to the harassed and tortured Dr. Eben, over and over, till even his loving patience was wellnigh outworn. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty's Strange History] Reference
We have lost the old absolute philosophies and dogmatic theologies and that is good and right, for they were outworn. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
Here, things had just drifted from freedom to servitude, with the people dropping their rights as a man discards outworn clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Alarm Clock] Reference
Hame, in his youthful assurance, despised him as withered with age, and chose to grapple rather than fight with an outworn old man. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Against the outworn past with its disillusions, its errors, its evils, and its hypocrisies, the new shines out in glorious contrast. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The old double-turret monitors have outworn their usefulness, while it was a waste of money to build the modern single-turret monitors. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Unhappy Acoetes is led along, outworn with age, he smites his breast and rends his face, and flings himself forward all along the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
I approve this message because bitter partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won't solve the problems we face today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2008] Reference
I approve this message, because bitter partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won't solve the problems we face today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2008] Reference
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