shopworn merchandise at half price. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"hit-the-grit" circus, and were writing to the big shows for prices on superannuated or "shopworn" animals. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
It has all come to seem shopworn, vestiges of another era. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Maintenance] Reference
Like a lot of older print brands, it feels a little shopworn. From Wordnik.com. [Alan M. Webber: Is BusinessWeek Worth $1?] Reference
After decades on display, Arafat, 64, is more than a little shopworn. From Wordnik.com. [Peace At Last?] Reference
In other words, they heard some shopworn marketing cliches over the phone. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: Senator Dodd's Accusers: Lying Liars and the Reporters Who Enable Them] Reference
Unlike other shopworn TV tropes, however, "chicks making out" always works. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Skin: When Women Kiss: From TV Stunts to Mainstream Reality] Reference
He's looking shopworn and she's looking -- how shall I put it -- inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Obama Adviser Calls Hillary A "Monster"] Reference
No damaged or shopworn merchandise ... why wouldn't someone join Gilt Groupe?. From Wordnik.com. [Alexis Maybank: How We Started a Viral Business] Reference
"Lebanon was as shopworn an origin as 'from an old Swiss private collection.'". From Wordnik.com. [The Trial in Rome] Reference
(If you're scoring at home, that's two shopworn sci-fi phrases in one sentence.). From Wordnik.com. [Meet George Jetson] Reference
Instead voters still hear echoes of shopworn ideology from the right and the left. From Wordnik.com. [The No Bull Campaign] Reference
Her apology comes only after she realized that her shopworn race card didn't work. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2006] Reference
She was tall and elegant in a shopworn way, wearing a long gray robe and no shoes. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
To turn the place into a dustbin for shopworn, defeated, out-of-office politicians?. From Wordnik.com. [They Can't Read or Write, But They Sure Can Agitate] Reference
Critics say Mr. Yuasa's shopworn socialist ideas won't help revive Japan's economy. From Wordnik.com. [Joblessness Spurs Shift in Japan's Views on Poverty] Reference
Such tactics are meant to improve on indecency-evading tactics that have become shopworn. From Wordnik.com. [Navigating TV's Shifting Taste Boundaries] Reference
He is one of the old standard-issue profs, burbling with shopworn pedantries and condescensions. From Wordnik.com. [A Tough Lesson In Sexual Harassment] Reference
His executive producer, Peter Lassally, gave him a bit of shopworn parental advice: be yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Late Bloomer] Reference
Feinberg never considered that his phone taglines might sound like the shopworn marketing cliches. From Wordnik.com. [David Fiderer: Worse Than Whitewater, Chris Dodd and the Phony Countrywide V.I.P. Loan Scandal] Reference
The beach bunch is sunburned, the sand shopworn, hot, full of debris - no place for walking barefoot. From Wordnik.com. [The Generation Game] Reference
The other book-within-a-book is a shopworn jeremiad lamenting the current state of American politics. From Wordnik.com. [Wheeler-Dealers in Washington] Reference
Next to him Milo looked more shopworn than ever in his sagging trousers and lifeless tweed sport coat. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
The other day, a male friend and I were talking about that now shopworn phrase, "The Year of the Woman.". From Wordnik.com. [Looking Beyond The Slogans] Reference
Such a simple, brown hat she found, a little shopworn; the long, warm coat she bought matched perfectly. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Let us, therefore, set aside shopworn worries, and the self-immolating doctrine of the preemptive strike. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks In First Session Of Economic Summit A] Reference
A Senate seat is indeed golden, if a little shopworn, in light of Illinois 'almost 200 years of statehood. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Handel: The Right Way to Sell a Senate Seat] Reference
It sounds like they're working up to that shopworn Scooter Libby defense, "there was no underlying crime.". From Wordnik.com. [RJ Eskow: GOP's Defense: She Shot the Sheriff, But She Did Not Shoot the Deputy] Reference
Stossel's shopworn technique, honed for years on ABC's 20/20, is to marshal his porous arguments in two ways. From Wordnik.com. [John Stossel of Fox News: Is He Dumb or Dishonest?] Reference
Perhaps Red should take one piece of shopworn advice that he gives at the end of the book: stick to what know!. From Wordnik.com. [Technical Foul, Red] Reference
And I am left to woo her with nothing but my shopworn metaphors, my contrived rhymes, my incompetent pentameter. From Wordnik.com. [Letter to Neruda] Reference
"Amanda, forget those shopworn cats — their beauty is purchased on Bond Street and fades like yesterday's flowers.". From Wordnik.com. [Hero Come Back]
Confounding shopworn ideological labels, unlikely duos are assembling-issue by issue-a new, practical-minded agenda for the '90s. From Wordnik.com. [What's A Pair Of Paradigms? The Newest Odd Coupl] Reference
If you're talking to one VC and he finds out that you were rejected by another several months ago, you'll definitely seem shopworn. From Wordnik.com. [How to Fund a Startup] Reference
Rather I was using a shopworn sales technique (trial close) just like any average sales guy, because I hadn't yet successfully sold. From Wordnik.com. ["When Can We Start?"... Who Said That? - Bob Sherman - MediaBizBloggers] Reference
Swan had the strange delicacy of a chipped and shopworn figurine, all the more striking because he wasn't handsome, let alone pretty. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
Rely less on White House formalities and airport ceremonies and the entire shopworn summer-stock repertoire of visits here and there. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley Burston: Mr. Obama, Have a Talk With These Israelis, and Soon] Reference
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