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outworn

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out·worn  (out-wôrn, -wrn)
v.
Past participle of outwear.
adj.
No longer acceptable, usable, or practical: an outworn penal code; outworn clothes.

outworn
Adjective
(of a belief or custom) old-fashioned and no longer of any use or relevance: there is no point in pandering to outworn superstition
Translations
Spanish outworn [autˈwɔːn] adj [expression] → cansado

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I am perfectly willing to be rated low for my preference, and yet I think that if it had been Goldoni's luck to have had the great age of a mighty monarchy for his scene, instead of the decline of an outworn republic, his place in literature might have been different.
--Indeed, I believe that none but greenhorns and excessively Russian people feel an attraction towards the French; for, to any man of sensibility, such a compendium of outworn forms--a compendium which is built up of drawing-room manners, expansiveness, and gaiety--becomes at once over-noticeable and unbearable.
till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome, outworn game.
 
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