shopworn

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.
   • Broke Sycamores by Oaks may be ſuppli'd: / Faln bricks by ſtones to make a Building fair; / But by ſuch patching 'tvvill be vvorſe alaſs, / Nevv generous vvine vvill break old Shop-vvorn Glaſs.1666, Abraham Chear, “A Mourner’s Mite, towards the Right Remembrance of that Late Labourer in the Gospel, Thomas Glass, who Rested from His Work on Earth, the 30th. Day of the 7th. Month, 1666”, in...
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
   • The shopworn ghost-story part of the tale has been energized by the brilliant performance of little Owen Meany, who—despite his diminutive size—is a huge presence onstage; the miniature Meany simply dwarfs the other performers.1989, John Irving, “The Ghost of the Future”, in A Prayer for Owen Meany […], New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 185

   Synonyms:

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

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

   Synonyms:

   shop-soiled, timeworn