outworn
Americanadjective
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out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete.
outworn ideas; outworn methods.
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worn-out, as clothes.
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exhausted in strength or endurance, as persons.
verb
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Example Sentences
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Setting recent works among older ones is an effective element of LACMA’s overall plan to shed outworn hierarchies.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2021
That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021
His theatrical, packed-to-the-gills exhibition at the Frye Art Museum aims to supplant the outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon with new heroes, histories and paradigms.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2018
That was not the way to destroy people’s outworn beliefs .
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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