- past participle of outwear.
outworn
Example Sentences
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“Only old, outworn notions stand in the way of these ideas.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
Could I remount the river of my years To the first fountain of our smiles and tears I would not trace again its stream of hours Between its outworn banks of withered flowers.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021
That “hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn,” as science fiction author Wilson Tucker memorably put it when he coined the term in 1941.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
His theatrical, packed-to-the-gills exhibition at the Frye Art Museum aims to supplant the outworn heroes and cultural assumptions of the Western canon with new heroes, histories and paradigms.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2018
And as I undressed I saw my outworn clothes and realized that I'd have to shed them.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
