shopworn

How To Use shopworn In A Sentence

• This lack of sensitivity to the wellsprings of quality largely stems from shopworn but doggedly persistent ideas on where to economize.
• Or better yet, might we construct a model that is both consistent with the evidence and more beneficial than either of those shopworn choices? Clay Farris Naff: Are We The Reason For The Universe's Existence? The Anthropic Principle Reconsidered
• Exotic dancers, taxi drivers, cigarette girls, lawyers of the shopworn sort with dandruff on their lapels.
• And the nuclear priesthood to borrow a phrase from the father of our "Nuclear Navy", Admiral Hyman Rickover still uses many words and concepts that were already shopworn decades ago. Rory O'Connor: No Word for Meltdown: Nukespeak Returns
• Where Intolerable Cruelty is stylized and fun, Laws of Attraction is shopworn and flat.
• His bag of tricks is so small, and so shopworn, it's almost as if he's writing the same column every week.
• It is tarted up with shopworn absurdism, as when a moronic computer programmer jumps off that roof only to reappear without explanation to continue being moronic.
• The beach garland is sunburned, a silt shopworn, hot, as well as full of waste -- no place for upon foot barefoot. Archive 2009-11-01
• The problem with revenge stories is that they're a staple of American cinema and because of that, the genre is a little shopworn.
• Short and stocky, a shopworn wool sweater carelessly worn backwards on occasion, Bob displayed an almost pixyish quality that was only enhanced by his lilting, Gaelic turn of phrase and charming absent-mindedness.