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Webster 1913 Edition
Shopworn
Shop′wornˊ
,Adj.
Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
Definition 2024
shopworn
shopworn
See also: shop-worn
English
Adjective
shopworn (comparative more shopworn, superlative most shopworn)
- used, as a sample item in a retail store
- The handbag looks nice, but shopworn.
- not fresh; tired or cliché
- 26 June 2014, A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together
- New York is positioned as the third protagonist—literally, as the characters repeatedly tell each other. Recycled aerial footage of the city underlines just how generic this particular insight is. The whole film is like that, its dialogue constantly poking fun and calling attention to the shopworn conventions.
- 26 June 2014, A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together
- faded
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:hackneyed