overworn
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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Where lines like “don’t give up; don’t stop believing; keep the faith” can transform from overworn platitudes into a chant of quiet confidence and inflate the listener’s heart like the Grinch on Christmas.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025
But for British dramas fictional cops cannot get away from the cheaper and often overworn suits favoured by their non-fictional contemporaries.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013
And she was neither too long nor too short, having straight legs like steel, and small feet and round hoofs, neither overgrown in idleness nor overworn with much work.
From Khaled, A Tale of Arabia by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
For he was overworn, and still is, much.
From Yolanda of Cyprus by Rice, Cale Young
All conversation is political; every man is a battery, with brushes overworn, and gives out blue sparks when you set him going on the common topic.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark
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