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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
Adjective
1. showing the adverse effects of overlong use or of old age: a timeworn café
2. having been used so often as to be no longer interesting: a timeworn cliché
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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'"
banal, hackneyed, old-hat, stock, threadbare, trite, well-worn, tired, shopworn, commonplace
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
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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.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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