Sentence examples for shopsoiled from inspiring English sources

And many of the malls that were built in the heyday of the genre are starting to look shopsoiled.

They are loyal centrists, neither Brownites nor ultra-Blairites, but the good and faithful servants of a weary and slightly shopsoiled government.

Her acting, like her writing is original in conception, but shopsoiled in execution.

If the goods are said to be shopsoiled, for example, you cannot complain about them being dirty.

In cases like this, Dickson restores a shock of novelty to words or phrases that have become shopsoiled.

In Jonathan Coe's novel The Closed Circle, a middle-aged man points at beautiful waitress half his age and says to his equally shopsoiled friend: "What do we know about her?

Not all gift-of-the-gab populists of either left or right turn out to be incompetents or rogues, though both of London's elected ex-mayors, Ken and Boris, are looking shopsoiled and tacky this month.