shop-worn

Adjective

shopworn (comparative more shopworn, superlative most shopworn)

1. Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.; shop-soiled.
   • The handbag looks nice, but shopworn.
2. (figuratively) Of an idea, a piece or writing, etc.: repeated so often as to have become uninteresting; clichéd, overused, tired.
   • Peace with honour—that immortal phrase coined by the greatest phrase-maker of his generation—has become slightly shop[-]worn, although still admittedly serviceable, and honour is not lightly to be defined.1909 October, Horace Annesley Vachell, “The Paladin’s Quest”, in The Paladin: As Beheld by a Woman of Temperament, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, book II, page 110

   Synonyms:

   shop-soiled, timeworn, banal, bathetic, bromidic, cheesy, stock, clichéd, commonplace, corny

3. (figuratively) Of an object: faded, shabby.

   Synonyms:

   shop-soiled, timeworn