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
And she was neither too long nor too short, having straight legs like steel, and small feet and round hoofs, neither overgrown in idleness nor overworn with much work.
From Khaled, A Tale of Arabia by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
For this wandering everlonger, evermore, Hath overworn me, And I know not on what shore I may rest from my despair.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A foolishness all overworn, Yet deadly as the frost of scorn!
From Song-waves by Theodore H. (Theodore Harding) Rand
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