adj 1: worn or faded from being on display in a store; "shopworn
merchandise at half price" [syn: shopsoiled]
2: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
"hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the
trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]