timeworn

[ tahym-wawrn, -wohrn ]

/ ˈtaɪmˌwɔrn, -ˌwoʊrn /

worn or impaired by time.

showing the effects of age or antiquity; antiquated: timeworn farming methods.

commonplace; trite; hackneyed: a timeworn excuse.

Origin of timeworn

First recorded in 1720–30; time + worn

Branch after branch is dropping from the timeworn, weatherbeaten trunk.

Jewish Literature and Other Essays |Gustav Karpeles
It was an altar-tomb, broken and timeworn and almost covered with an accumulation of earth and moss and leaves.

Virginia: The Old Dominion |Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
Besides the earnest agony of its words, there was a mute eloquence about that yellow, timeworn paper.

Merkland |Mrs. Oliphant
You seem to have inherited the timeworn theory that the War of 1914 was entirely provoked by the junker class of Germans.

The Great Prince Shan |E. Phillips Oppenheim

Beyond the fountain, before the timeworn cloister, sat an aged brother surrounded by monks.

The Higher Court |Mary Stewart Daggett

timeworn

/ (ˈtaɪmˌwɔːn) /

showing the adverse effects of overlong use or of old age

hackneyed; trite