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shopworn

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃɒpwɔːn/Part of speech adjectiveSorted hnooprswStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

Word origin

From shop (noun) + worn (adjective).

Used in a sentence

  • The handbag looks nice, but shopworn.
  • Broke Sycamores by Oaks may be ſuppli'd: / Faln bricks by ſtones to make a Building fair; / But by ſuch patching 'tvvill be vvorſe alaſs, / Nevv generous vvine vvill break old Shop-vvorn Glaſs.
  • Peace with honour—that immortal phrase coined by the greatest phrase-maker of his generation—has become slightly shop[-]worn, although still admittedly serviceable, and honour is not lightly to be defined.

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