threadbare
adjective
having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of the warp and woof, as a fabric, garment, etc.
threadbareness
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a word derived from
threadbare.
Example Sentences
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‘A means to counter the sorry threadbareness of imperial Britain’: mods in Brighton, 1966.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2013
One has only to overlook a little threadbareness in the similes, and it is very good oratorical verse.
From Among My Books First Series by James Russell Lowell
A strange thing—this complete confidence seemed to comfort Geissler wonderfully in his threadbareness.
From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
