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timeworn

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time·worn  (tmwôrn, -wrn)
adj.
1. Showing the effects of long use or wear: timeworn lanes.
2. Used too often; trite: timeworn expressions.

timeworn [ˈtaɪmˌwɔːn]
adj
1. showing the adverse effects of overlong use or of old age
2. hackneyed; trite
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.timeworntimeworn - repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham
Translations
timeworn [ˈtaɪmˌwɔːn] adj (hackneyed, phrase, idea, excuse) → trito/a e ritrito/a
timeworn [ˈtaɪmˌwɔːn] adj (hackneyed, phrase, idea, excuse) → trito/a e ritrito/a


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And this may serve for an example, that there is almost always an old and timeworn substance under all the glittering show of new invention.
At length, however, she gave up the attempt, and Jane heard her returning toward the window, beneath which she paused for an instant, and then launched her great weight against the timeworn lattice.
A woman's arm touched the soul of a great sculptor two thousand years ago, so that he wrought an image of it for the Parthenon which moves us still as it clasps lovingly the timeworn marble of a headless trunk.
 
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