[W/K] :: well-worn

  well-worn
       adj 1: showing signs of much wear or use
       2: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
          sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
          "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
          threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the
          trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace,
           hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare,
           timeworn, tired, trite]

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "well-worn":
     automatic, back-number, banal, bare, beaten, bewhiskered, bromidic,
     common, commonplace, constant, corny, cut-and-dried, deep-worn,
     dog-eared, fade, familiar, frequent, fusty, habitual, hackney,
     hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, old hat, persistent, platitudinous,
     recurrent, recurring, regular, repetitive, routine, sere, set,
     shelfworn, shopworn, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare,
     timeworn, trite, truistic, unoriginal, warmed-over, well-known,
     well-trodden, worn, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags,
     worn to threads, worn-down