Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet THREADBARE

Definition av THREADBARE

1. luggsliten, trådsliten
2. (bildligt) utnött, som har använts för mycket

Exempel på hur man kan använda THREADBARE i en mening

• During the ensuing retreat, his 6,000 surviving threadbare and starving Caroleans were caught in a fierce blizzard.
• The story tells how a very young girl in rags and threadbare shawl came to his door in bad weather and begged him to come take care of her sick mother.
• Writing for the Newhouse News Service, Stephen Whitty described the film as being "crammed full of threadbare fairy-tale imagery" and that "the plot has as much energy as the old Gephardt campaign".
• Three men have been designated to remain behind with pack animals to serve as a rearguard and secure the retreat: Adaon, the warrior son of chief bard Taliesin; Taran; and Ellidyr, Prince of Pen-Llarcau, who is arrogant, wiry, strong, and threadbare.
• " Jeff Millar of the Houston Chronicle compared Steve Martin's character in the film to Ed Wood, and Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times described Bowfinger International Pictures as "a company so threadbare even schlockmeister Ed Wood would've looked down on it.
• Neither of these requisites can be considered wanting in those who are engaged in the task of reproducing Lamarck’s theory of organic life, either as altogether new, or with but a tattered threadbare cloak, thrown over its original nakedness.
• After press speculation that he was disappointed not to have achieved high office, Welsh wrote an article explaining that as a council leader he delivered "real service to constituents, rather than the threadbare and raddled soundbites of politicians who promise everything and deliver nothing".
• In his book Film as a Subversive Art, Amos Vogel writes that the threadbare plot belies something "far deeper and funnier in Morrissey’s unsentimental, accepting attitude toward life, embodied by Joe Dallesandro’s brooding, disaffected performance".
• Reviews of the film included comments such as "threadbare concoction", "narcissism flourishing like ragweed" and "unctuous".
• A threadbare and uninteresting plot holds together 100-some minutes' worth of weird but mostly non-threatening spooks.
• What's so amusing about Jones' songwriting is the glib manner in which he brandishes threadbare platitudes as unique insights.
• For once it is sheer zest and invention which count, for they are the qualities – far more than the jamboree of topline "pop" artists taking part – which have succeeded in turning a basically threadbare, trashy plot-line into a genuinely comic occasion.
• And while Lara with the bat, and Bishop with the ball - if he could keep fit - were undeniably the class of the next generation, and there were other fine batsmen who had to be left behind, the cupboard was beginning to look a little threadbare for other replacements with the ball and particularly with the keeper's gloves.
• almost entirely for the Irish trade" Frieze was to be seen, Jubb noted impassively, worn so threadbare it was reduced to "the merest expression of threads crossing each other at right angles.
• Victor Adamson, whose westerns were so threadbare that he shot them in ramshackle California ghost towns on budgets of $1,000 or less, hired Wilsey for a series of features under the auspices of Adamson's ambitiously named Superior Talking Pictures.
• The poem features images typical of the Petrarchan sonnet, yet they are more than the "threadbare Petrarchan conventionalities".
• " Gary Arnold of The Washington Post wrote that the film "suffers from such a threadbare screenplay and tentative personality that one can't help marveling at its shlumpy appeal.
• Leslie Phillips holds this threadbare piece together, as the furrier up to his neck in girlfriends and cheap minks, but it's all rather tatty.
• “Faultline's heady combination of electronic avant-garde classical/dance is, thematically, about complicated as it sounds but Kosten's vision translates, aurally, as a series of threadbare, hauntingly programmed compositions, each simplistic and engrossing”.
• In contrast to his slickly attired opponents, Altieri is dressed in a threadbare cardigan and slacks.

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