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English Dictionary: shopworn by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shopworn
adj
  1. worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn merchandise at half price"
    Synonym(s): shopworn, 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'"
    Synonym(s): banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shopworn \Shop"worn`\, a.
      Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a
      shop.
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