shopwornadjective
uk/ˈʃɒp.wɔːn/us/ˈʃɑːp.wɔːrn/US UK shop-soiled If goods sold in shops are shopworn, they are slightly dirty or damaged and therefore reduced in price
US If a story or joke is shopworn, it is boring or not interesting because it is so familiar to people.
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In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- be on the skids idiom
- beat up
- blasted
- fleabitten
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- sad
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
- wrecked
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