Synonym: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn. Similar words: thread, threadlike, threat, threaten, threatened, threatening, read between the lines, threw. Meaning: adj. 1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse 2. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through.
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31. Nearly naked, both males and females wore ill-fitting shorts or old-fashioned knickerbockers, and three or four had donned threadbare jerseys.
32. The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character. " leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.
33. Such threadbare coats and trousers never were seen in Rag Fair.
34. Talk about getting something had become even too threadbare and ridiculous for him.
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36. And in the first half century, recorded music ripoff certain copy right rules made some of the great blues artists died with barely a penny in their threadbare pockets.
37. The Defense Department generally defended its existing programs, though the rationale for them was growing threadbare.
38. The Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper, threadbare carpet, gas lamps, and a serpent-shaped, cobwebby candleabra.Sentence dictionary
39. Standing on the threadbare carpet runner in hall, my father blinks.
40. Life in peacetime Britain was grey threadbare dreary and hopeless.
41. The Defence Department generally defended its existing programs, though the rationale for them was growing threadbare.
42. They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.
43. Firm of jaw and purpose, hard of heart and stomach, 007 was a coded signal to the United States that clapped-out, threadbare old Britain remained a force to be reckoned with in the post-war world.
44. A threadbare patch of Brussels carpet covered the centre of the room, and formed an oasis of roses and lilies upon a desert of faded green drugget .
45. On his arrest, he had been careful to take with him a threadbare cap and a shabby sheepskin coat that he had saved from his years in exile.
More similar words: thread, threadlike, threat, threaten, threatened, threatening, read between the lines, threw, three, threshold, threnody, with regard to, with respect to, read, bread, dread, ready, tread, reread, spread, reader, dreaded, reading, already, readily, get ready, breadth, misread, retread, readable.