threadbare

Etymology

From thread + bare.

adj

  1. (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
    2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text Unkempt, in threadbare clothes, with holed shoes and sun-cured hide, my costume is permanent: the traveler, the man from far away.
  2. damaged or shabby
  3. (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
  4. banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed
    But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land), Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. August 21, 2012, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The A.V. Club

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