overworn
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025
But for British dramas fictional cops cannot get away from the cheaper and often overworn suits favoured by their non-fictional contemporaries.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013
A foolishness all overworn, Yet deadly as the frost of scorn!
From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)
Oh, carpers rude and bold, You who have fed upon the gracious benison Scattered unstinted by him, do you now Dispraise the sweet-strung harp, grown tremulous 'Neath fingers overworn for all of us?
From A Lover's Diary, Volume 1. by Parker, Gilbert
The summer was now something overworn; the sultry dregs of August were ever and anon stirred by the cool finger of September.
From Bressant by Hawthorne, Julian
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