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well-worn in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
    banal  commonplace  hackneyed  old-hat  shopworn  stock  threadbare  timeworn  tired  trite  well-worn 
  2. showing signs of much wear or use
    well-worn 
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well-worn in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (adjective) showing signs of wear because of extensive use
  2. (adjective) (context/by extension) trite or hackneyed; repeated too often
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