threadbare

Years of squeezed spending in some areas leaving some parts of the public services threadbare.

The case against her was threadbare, a product of postwar rancor, false testimony and manipulative journalists who had preyed on her naivete.

She mumbled her threadbare story about being the cousin of England’s queen, but her heart was not in it, and she fell silent.

It marks a difficult start for the conservative politician who ran on bold pledges of reviving the stagnant economy, overhauling the threadbare military and toughening immigration policy after years of drift under the previous government.

Bringing my “whole self” to every moment left me threadbare.