shopworn
See also: shop-worn
English
Etymology
Adjective
shopworn (comparative more shopworn, superlative most shopworn)
- Having been used, as a sample item in a retail store.
- The handbag looks nice, but shopworn.
- Faded.
- (figuratively) Not fresh; tired or cliché.
- 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 7 December 2017:
- 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.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hackneyed