threadbare

Its so-called institutions, among them our nation’s increasingly threadbare 18th-century Constitution, are visibly crumbling, as if eaten away from within by an army of persistent termites.

Her attorney, Abbe Lowell, dismissed the referral as “three pages of stale, threadbare allegations.”

He was being used as an emergency striker with Isak an outcast, so how can Howe contemplate a sale when resources are now so threadbare?

The talk of “crime” is even more threadbare than the usual right-wing pretexts.

Now the Trojans enter his fourth with a raw, unproven commodity at quarterback, a threadbare linebacker room, and an inexperienced offensive line that could already be down a projected starter.