well-worn
showing the effects of extensive use or wear: well-worn carpets.
trite, hackneyed, or stale: a well-worn saying.
fittingly or becomingly worn or borne: a well-worn reserve that never seems haughty.
Origin of well-worn
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How to use well-worn in a sentence
In Admiralty, Thomas, a student at the University of Hong Kong, shared a few well-worn words.
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Like a patchwork quilt we can cherry pick from the holiday the parts that nurture our well worn hearts.
He keeps the papal Mercedes parked in the Vatican garage and insists on tooling around Rome in well-worn 1984 Renault.
Simple: not merely because it was wrong, but because it was wrong in such familiar-sounding and well-worn ways.
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The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.
Checkmate | Joseph Sheridan Le FanuHer "St. Agnes" is an interesting rendering of a well-worn subject.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementA piece of well-worn matting lay upon the floor, and there were two chairs, a table, and a number of empty tea-chests in the room.
Dope | Sax RohmerA well-worn stairway, trodden by the feet of pious generations, leads to subterranean galleries of considerable extent.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowPlacing together a well-worn book, a lamp, and a pair of heavy bowed spectacles makes a suggestive picture.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
British Dictionary definitions for well-worn
so much used as to be affected by wear: a well-worn coat
used too often; hackneyed: a well-worn phrase
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