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 shopworn
      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, old-hat, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn,
          tired, trite, well-worn]