overworn

[oh-ver-wawrn, -wohrn]

verb

1. past participle of overwear.

Example Sentences

Where lines like “don’t give up; don’t stop believing; keep the faith” can transform from overworn platitudes into a chant of quiet confidence and inflate the listener’s heart like the Grinch on Christmas.

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“It’s yours. I’ve already overworn it.”

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But Limitless is a fantastic example of a film that spends so much time connecting the basic dots of various overworn genres that it ultimately doesn’t quite fit into any of them.

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One of their most common trash items: overworn aprons and rags.

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But for British dramas fictional cops cannot get away from the cheaper and often overworn suits favoured by their non-fictional contemporaries.

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