Definition of Threadbare

Threadbare

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.

Threadbare Quotations

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Fiona Shaw

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
Thomas Dekker

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
William Watson

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Threadbare Translations

threadbare in German is fadenscheinige, fadenscheinig, fadenscheinig
threadbare in Spanish is calvo

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