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Threadbare
Threadbare meaning
Of cloth, clothing, furnishings, etc.: frayed and worn to an extent that the nap is damaged and the warp and weft threads show; shabby, worn-out. | In poor condition; damaged, shabby; also, poorly equipped or provided for, inadequate, meagre, scanty. | Of an argument, excuse, etc.: used so often that it is no longer effective or interesting; banal, clichéd, trite.
Example sentences (20)
An extract from the 42-year-old Scobie's new book Endgame published in reads: 'When laces get even the smallest bit threadbare, a staff member must quickly switch them out with a fresh, ironed pair.
Contrary to any stereotypes you may have heard, frugal people aren’t gaunt, gloomy misers with threadbare clothes and an air of permanent sadness.
His video commercials incessantly pleading for more money and arms and his “GI Joe” act in military fatigues from central casting are becoming as tedious as they are threadbare.
If she gets into films or reality shows, her life is made," said a colleague in the office, a women journalist examining the video and discussing it threadbare.
Locals furious at 'shocking' Christmas tree ahead of festive lights switch-on Council workers put a smattering of lights on the threadbare spruce ahead of a Christmas lights switch-on event.
Now, between ageing and injuries, it seems their roster is pretty threadbare and their record shows it.
Perhaps its most poignant treasure is this threadbare ensign, which was recovered from the wreck of the Princess Alice in 1878.
Southend already have a threadbare squad because of their ongoing off the field issues.
Sure, his clothes may have been a little threadbare, she said, and he didn’t own a computer.
The movie’s threadbare story can be gathered from the snippets of dialogue between Kevin and Kaylee, a 4-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister, who find themselves lost in their own home.
The Whites are in desperate need of additions with Farke already down to a threadbare squad due to injuries.
This gets especially noticeable toward the end of the game when gameplay becomes very threadbare, and the story approaches incoherence.
This is the reality for poor benefits applicants in the U.S., where bipartisan vigilance against supposed “welfare queens” (an invention of the racist imagination) has steadily unstitched the already-threadbare social safety net.
As the threadbare safety net in this country is further dismantled by Trump and his cronies, the necessity of coming together to provide support for medical care and other essentials will only become more important.
By 1910 or so, Lower Main Street was beginning to look threadbare and forlorn.
Captain Ludvig Kahlen (a steely, inscrutable ) has little to his name beyond his reputation as a fine soldier, and his rather threadbare uniform.
Even in the localities it won, its majorities have been slashed, and in some it now leads by the most threadbare of margins.
Instead, I picked at the threadbare burgundy upholstery.
It is a threadbare but exciting life that takes her on freight cars and on horseback across a landscape of hobo encampments, polo grounds and protest marches.
Its intelligence is clearly threadbare.