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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.


Related Definitions:
And, As, Clothes, Fig, Having, Naked, Nap, Off, Out, Stale, Subject, The, Thread, Threadbare, To, Worn


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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