1. threadbare - Adjective
2. threadbare - Adjective Satellite
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLife was a throwing off for poor aunt Gladys, her greatest joys were taking out the garbage, emptying the pantry, and making threadbare bundles for what she still refers to as the poor Jews of Palestine. Philip Roth
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. Fiona Shaw
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me. Gabrielle Anwar
Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. William Watson
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. G. K. Chesterton
When a man's coat is threadbare it is easy to pick a hole in it. English Proverb