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Definition of the day : « threadbare »
- adj worn, frayed
- adj trite, corny
- It's a very good word, too, but sometimes I fear she will wear it threadbare.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- When at length she felt a welcome jar and lurch her patience was threadbare.
- Extract from : « The Very Small Person » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- He weighed the stories he had heard from Shaky, and picked them threadbare.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- His sentiments were, no better known in Boston than his threadbare clothes.
- Extract from : « The Siege of Boston » by Allen French
- She pressed the cat to her threadbare bosom with a breathless exclamation.
- Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
- Simple, threadbare phrases, yet she had once thought him brilliant.
- Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht
- Paddy would come in shivering and shaking in his threadbare coat.
- Extract from : « Jerry's Reward » by Evelyn Snead Barnett
- Once these terms were strange and new; now they are old and threadbare.
- Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
- Owen had, however, to wear his threadbare jacket for some days longer.
- Extract from : « Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs » by William H. G. Kingston
- He liked to be clean, but he preferred, as it were, to be threadbare.
- Extract from : « The Good Soldier » by Ford Madox Ford