shopworn

But the idea that technology makes us free has now become a shopworn notion in need of drastic revision.

I had a feeling that the end and slice would lie around and get shopworn if I did not take them.

He was long limbed and awkward and useless, and homely as a shopworn fifty-cent yellow plush manicure set.

Amid a mob of shopworn public men, here was one who had at least the charm of novelty.

He looks around helplessly as if searching for new words to clothe an old, shopworn phrase.

Even now, shopworn as she was, Gloria could have a fairly wide range of suitors should something happen to him.