threadbare
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6.6
- adjective
- /ˈθrɛdˌbɛr/
:
desgastado
- Andieta was wearing his one suit, out of style, dark, and threadbare, and he had no hat or umbrella.
- threadbare carpet
- threadbare clothes
- threadbare jacket
Examples
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Cardboard folders and small stacks of manuscript pages were set out on the threadbare carpet.
Fiction book (1995) -
Finally, Garibasi shows up, wearing a threadbare blazer and carrying a surveying rod.
Fiction book (1995) -
The fabric of her dress is so threadbare it is rotten and torn at the seams.
Fiction book (1995) -
But now the carpet was threadbare, the smell of cigarettes soaked decades deep into the yellowed walls.
Fiction book (1997) -
Slim slipped out of his raincoat and shook water over the threadbare carpet.
Fiction book (1996) -
There is a visible weariness to the poor, the threadbare elbows of their shirts, their oil-stained work boots.
Academic text (2007) -
I picture the tall, cool rooms with their crumbling ceilings and threadbare tapestries woven in dark colors.
Fiction book (1998) -
Loretta's house looked like a threadbare fairyland in the midst of boarded windows and defeated lawns.
Fiction book (1996) -
The children wore threadbare clothes that had not been replaced for years.
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He sat down on the threadbare sofa, which had lost much of its original color.
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Etymology
Threadbare comes from the simple parts thread ('string in cloth') and bare ('no covering'), so it first meant cloth so worn that the threads show. That's why threadbare now describes something shabby or worn-out.