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well-used

adjective

  1. used or employed often or for a long time; well-worn


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So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?

He is a pugnacious writer and speaker himself, well used to picking intellectual fights.

For instance, Iago declares in Othello that, “Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.”

"They were not very tempting, certainly; however, we are pretty well used to them by this time," replied De Lucenay.

Mr. Ernescliffe manages him very well—used to illness on that African coast, and the doctor is very fond of him.

Susannah was well used to reminding her aunt of things that lady knew perfectly well.

We had on the table a red oilcloth cover, various well-used salt-cellars, and a motley array of knives and forks.

She was evidently well used to her business; she did not even take the trouble to look into my face to see who was the newcomer.

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