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Even though there is a threadbare concession stand, overflowing picnic baskets abound.

Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms.

Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful.

On the other hand, the economic model is as threadbare as many of the buildings and much of the island's infrastructure.

Sequestration tore at our threadbare social safety net, and this deal leaves the damage intact.

The trick that he hit upon was the stalest, the most threadbare, the most commonplace and vulgar that one can imagine.

It is used to divert attention from poverty of thought and a threadbare vocabulary.

Moreover he had torn his threadbare overalls and his hot face was smeared where he had rubbed off the mosquitoes with dirty hands.

No one should pretend to write upon so threadbare a topic without having at least some novelty of expression.

The fireplace gave the room a cheerful appearance but she could not fail to notice the threadbare rug, the scanty furniture.