
shopworn
adj 1: worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn
merchandise at half price" [syn: {shopsoiled}]
2: 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'" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace},
{hackneyed}, {old-hat}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
{tired}, {trite}, {well-worn}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0