outworn

Only months before, she thought that was an ancient and outworn custom.

Such ideas are undoubtedly regarded today as "outworn social tradition."

He looked at her and saw that she spoke truth, for she was quite outworn.

"Like a dog, for he seems outworn with travel."

Hooked rugs were a way of using up outworn clothing, but now they're a hot commodity.

Tucked casually in among the outworn relics of childhood were three small books.

The omniscient author who can move into the past, the future and the minds of his characters is an outworn device.

It was my object to break through the crust of those outworn opinions on which established institutions depend.

The second was that she saw what could be if you refused to let outworn custom and stale tradition tie your hands.

That dealt with, he planned to reduce the Spartans, those relics of an outworn past.

Jealousy fell from her like an outworn cloak.

Adam was aware that this was a rather outworn opening gambit.

Many of those Germans who acted against this massacre did so "in the name of an outworn social tradition."

She was suddenly tired of outworn dreams.

The charge crept up as a reluctant, outworn wave creeps to a resisting rock.

Miss Joyce acquired then discarded millionaires like outworn pumps.

Regularly he revolted against outworn techniques and materials.

If you still put your faith in outworn gods, it is small surprise they stripped you thus."

Barbarians keep few records, apart from genealogies, so they forget easily and do not wear the outworn for long.

Gradually, he drinks himself into darkness, becoming a sad relic of the graceful, old, outworn India.

The answer probably has something to do with outworn notions about show business's being too rough-and-tumble for a respectable woman to enter.

With that draught the last of his aberration fell away from him like a shoddy outworn garment.

It was impossible to stop them; indeed I was too outworn with labours and emotions to make any such attempt.

That is to say, it echoed an outworn hick radicalism rather than Roosevelt's modern cosmopolitanism.

Instead of trying to make women - and men - adapt to an outworn institution, we should adapt our institutions to the lives people actually live.