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UK
/tˈaɪmwɔːn/
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ADJECTIVE
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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
a stock answer
his remarks were trite and commonplace
parroting some timeworn axiom
bromidic sermons
the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
repeating threadbare jokes
hackneyed phrases
bromidic sermons
a stock answer
How To Use timeworn In A Sentence
- Another timeworn—but largely ineffective—technique is known as satiation. It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend
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- Feet shuffled and timeworn hymnaries were opened with trembling hands.
- Recently, land consolidation is started all over the country, but methods of land consolidation planning and design are timeworn and lack of applications of Hi techs.
- Even those dramas founded on more mainstream set-ups – new cop series Chicago Code and The Closer, for example, starring, respectively, Jennifer Beals (47) and Kyra Sedgwick (45) – appear to have jettisoned the timeworn notion of the gutsy dame forced to overcome prejudice in a traditionally male environment. With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses
- Jeff Parker has established himself as a smart writer of a variety of snappy, satisfying genre comics, even finding fresh approaches to timeworn franchise characters. 15 « October « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
- Looks like a timeworn gargoyle," said Giordino, successfully controlling his emotions. INCA GOLD
- Replicated at the grass roots, some kind of PR alchemy transforms longtime opportunists into profiles in courage and timeworn corporate flacks into champions of the common people.
- The contradictions between an ascendant democratic movement and a timeworn media oligarchy are extreme.
- 'Hail brineless seas! o'er timeworn Rocks released, To Immagination