(a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
(a.) Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, due for renewal next year, was "threadbare" and that the existing nuclear powers would be in a much better position to tell non-nuclear countries not to develop weapons if they pursued deep cuts in their stockpiles.
(2) However, Australia are a threadbare side with absolutely nothing about them.
(3) Substitute Felipe Pardo scores twice as Olympiakos beat Dinamo Zagreb Read more Wenger’s options on the bench looked threadbare; Bayern’s rather less so and Pep Guardiola was able to introduce Robben in the 54th minute.
(4) The 57-year-old, working with a threadbare squad which contained just eight players and no senior goalkeeper when the pre-season friendlies started , has publicly questioned the club’s transfer policy on a number of occasions.
(5) Why keep daytime TV churning through the wastes of the day on both BBC1 and BBC2 when one channel could do the threadbare run of Angela Lansbury series and jumble-sale reality without anyone missing or caring?
(6) It is the point where the already threadbare veil of "meritocracy" falls off to reveal a fiscal system designed to reward already concentrated pots of wealth.
(7) With Tom Huddlestone, Jermaine Jenas, David Bentley and Danny Rose all unfit too, Tottenham's midfield has a threadbare look.
(8) But the reaction leaves BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s assertion that his policy is having its intended effects looking increasingly threadbare.
(9) Most of it is pretty threadbare, especially since photos exist of Boris and Zac with some of the same people.
(10) Pellegrini had criticised Uefa for allowing the match to go ahead on a threadbare pitch that he described as "unbelievable".
(11) 2007: It snapped up Coley Pharmaceutical of the US for a relatively modest $164m in order to boost Pfizer's threadbare pipeline of new drugs.
(12) [A few months ago, I signed a letter with Monbiot and others to British Prime Minister David Cameron, arguing that environmentalists were dressing up their doctrinaire technophobic opposition to all things nuclear behind scaremongering and often threadbare arguments about cost.
(13) The shutdown has closed national parks, museums and monuments, and reduced many government departments and agencies to a threadbare staff.
(14) 5.03pm BST 1 min: The pitch is threadbare but also unnaturally green - a jarring combo.
(15) The threadbare agreement thrashed out last night has not even laid the foundations.
(16) This was not the home debut David Moyes had hoped for when he succeeded Sam Allardyce last month but Sunderland’s new manager deserves praise for making the best of some extremely threadbare resources.
(17) Since I arrived in the Netherlands last December, I did not get any money to buy a single item of clothing,” says Fahmi, still making do with a threadbare jacket and boots given to him by the Red Cross in Hungary.
(18) Some professors hold on to their careers for dear tenure, eking out threadbare research material and desperately placing articles in whichever journal will take them.
(19) Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.
(20) Not bad for an entrepreneur who recalls helping his mum colour in the pattern on the family's threadbare carpets with oil paints when he was a child.
Worn
Definition:
(p. p.) of Wear
() p. p. of Wear.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(2) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
(3) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
(4) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A sticker worn on the shirt an attendee at a New York City landmarks commission meeting.
(6) The police spokesman said the evidence considered included a testimony from a member of the public who witnessed the incident, footage supplied by the media, an interview with the man who was Tasered, footage from the video cameras worn by the attending officers and a statement from a safety trainer.
(7) At the present time, the following parameters can be recommended for "early diagnosis" of phosgene overexposure: Phosgene indicator paper badges, to be worn by all persons involved in handling phosgene (these badges permit immediate estimation of the exposure dose in each individual case); Observation of the initial irritative symptoms of the eye and the upper respiratory tract after phosgene inhalation can provide a rough indication of the inhalation concentration and dose; X-ray photographs of the lungs make it possible to detect incipient toxic pulmonary edema at an early stage, during the clinical latent period.
(8) Every time he felt the futility of his work for the NAACP, he’d finger the well-worn pages, and it would strengthen his resolve.” This is how classics of this calibre work their way into the literary bloodstream.
(9) In order to evaluate the usefulness of gamma-ray-irradiation to improve the tolerance to wear of the sockets, the worn surface of the 2.5 M rad gamma-ray-irradiated HDP sockets after total hip arthroplasty has been quantified by a newly-developed 3 dimensional (3-D) image analysis method in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
(10) Gloves were the barrier worn most frequently when appropriate (74%), followed by goggles (13%), gowns (12%), and masks (1%).
(11) The Pucci Saturday night show was a fairly typical glamorous display with op art prints, 70s shapes and jetset-worthy wafty dresses – all the things Dundas has done so successfully – worn by supermodels including Eva Herzigova, Karie Kloss, Joan Smalls and Natasha Poly.
(12) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
(13) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
(14) The case is described of a 26-year olf woman, gravida 2, para 1, who presented with failure to conceive 18 months after revomal of a Lippes Loop IUD worn for 12 months.
(15) Designs weren’t limited to abayas (a long tunic traditionally worn by Muslim women in the Middle East).
(16) Partly for this reason, writers like Jeremy Rifkin have been saying that information privacy is a worn-out idea.
(17) Conventionally fitted Paraperm O2plus contact lenses were worn for 44 months by 23 myopic children, who discontinued lens wear for 2.5 months and then resumed lens wear with Fluoroperm 30 lenses for a period of 8 months.
(18) As the weirdly brilliant TV show Fashion Police – hosted by the late, great Joan Rivers, who, along with various randoms, passed judgment on clothes worn by celebrities that week – demonstrated, people have different takes on clothes.
(19) Like 90% of the population, all I knew about him was that he was that bloke who’d worn a dress to the Baftas.
(20) More than half of 18- to 30-year-olds say they’re worried about the future, 47% report that they lack self-confidence, and 42% that they feel worn down.