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as in dilapidated
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
the wooden steps to the timeworn cottage had rotted and several shutters were missing
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as in cliche
used or heard so often as to be dull
I'm sick of the timeworn "How you've grown!" every time she sees me
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Recent Examples of timeworn
There are the timeworn protests that making bigger sizes is too hard and too expensive.
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Kara Richardson Whitely, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2022
Mitchell says that modern pieces, with their harder edges and cleaner lines, marry so well to burnished, timeworn antiques.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
Like all genres, forest horror traffics in a number of timeworn tropes.
—Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2022
To be sure, many recent witch novels explore timeworn themes: Witches are distrusted and feared and must conceal themselves from the world.
—Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
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Kara Richardson Whitely, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2022
Mitchell says that modern pieces, with their harder edges and cleaner lines, marry so well to burnished, timeworn antiques.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
Like all genres, forest horror traffics in a number of timeworn tropes.
—Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2022
To be sure, many recent witch novels explore timeworn themes: Witches are distrusted and feared and must conceal themselves from the world.
—Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for timeworn
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The dilapidated Johnson Inn still stands on a valuable Porter Beach lakefront parcel almost two years after the town of Porter issued condemnation orders.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2025
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Kumar purchased the dilapidated former Burger King last year and plans to convert the building into a commissary and test kitchen to create new menu items for his other restaurants and to provide training for his cooks.—
Tyler Williams,
Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Some who have tolerated a static image on a neglected part of their screen may not be as accepting of more distracting ad formats.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
17 Mar. 2025
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This was to help end the puppy mill industry, where dogs are bred en masse, leading them to be born and raised in filthy and neglected conditions.—
Andrew Sheeler,
Sacramento Bee,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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At the time, Latinos were often cast in stereotyped roles with heavy accents and largely denied the opportunity to direct features.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Tragedies can be examined by those outside of its sphere of destruction, but the groundswell of feeling from Mexican viewers and critics is that there was little or no care taken to understand the cultural grief beyond stereotyped spectacle.—
Lucy Ford,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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Selections from the trio’s synth-heavy mid-Eighties years sound sturdier than ever within the grand sweep of Rush 50, defying the tired rock-purist take that the trio strayed too far during this period.—
Hank Shteamer,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2025
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Absorb punches until Trump tires himself out or, more likely, the American people get tired of all the chaos and disruption.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
20 Mar. 2025
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The movie’s a little more hackneyed and obvious now, but its central idea is still an undeniably creepy one: possessed children with pitchforks.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025
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Which is a nauseatingly hackneyed and clichéd — not to mention stupefyingly reductive — type of statement to make about any kind of art or entertainment, of course.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
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“Timeworn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/timeworn. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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