Word: timeworn
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Every group but the IOP had multiple open houses, and, at each spot, prospective participants appeared to be getting a practiced, timeworn pitch...
...this to be nice," is a timeworn Crimson motto that in some ways speaks the truth. Despite a dedication to the community and to objective reporting, a newspaper does not often win friends. Even the most fair and accurate reporting of controversy can leave both sides angry...
...lost those institutions completely, however, we'd all miss out. There's something to be said for individuality and character. Call it Harvard regional flavor. If every house were a sterile, characterless collection of numerically-diverse communities, some timeworn College institutions might disappear: the Dunster goat roast, the Kirkland Incest Fest...
...Complicity between liar and auditor rarely occurs in this category; the liar wants to get away with something. If a lie turneth away wrath, or win a job or a date on Saturday night, why not tell it? Because to do so is immoral and wrong, runs the standard, timeworn answer. But this stricture has never cut as much ice with potential liars as moralists would wish. The vast majority of criminal defendants assert their innocence, no matter what the evidence against them. Watergate was a baroque pageant of major players and spear carriers trying to lie themselves...
...talk about the perils of "divided government," Gephardt said the recent rash of resignations of timeworn legislators reveals how partisan politics have begun to hinder the effectiveness of the federal government...