shopworn
Speech parts
1. shopworn - Adjective
2. shopworn - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop.
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There they go, off to Venus, just for the ride, thinking that they will find a planet like a seer's crystal, in which to read a miraculous future. What they'll find, instead, is the somewhat shopworn image of themselves. Mars is a mirror, not a crystal.
bromidic sermons
his remarks were trite and commonplace
hackneyed phrases
a stock answer
repeating threadbare jokes