'threadbare' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is worn out, with the fabric thinned out from too much use. For example: "The rug in my living room was threadbare from years of foot traffic."
Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.
"#whoputstrufflesontheirnipplesDearGod," she wrote on Instagram, which rather invited the answer: I dunno, someone who spends $150 on a Preserve Exclusive Pixie Rag Doll, designed to look "faded and threadbare"?
Privately, some officials fear that an enhanced search-and-rescue operation in the Mediterranean will not just deplete threadbare budgets, but act as a "pull factor" that will encourage and facilitate record levels of migrant arrivals on to a continent that has made it clear it wants no more boat people.
The colossal discrepancy between Hillary's rockstar aura and the increasingly threadbare humdrummery of the British political scene must be galling for our political leaders.
It will help his rather threadbare credibility, but whether it will help on fairness is more of an open question.
Now, with patchy street-lighting, half-tarmaced streets and a smattering of abandoned homes, its most threadbare end suggests the more blighted parts of the American deep south.
We have that authenticity of the age, the way that their cuffs and trousers were always a little threadbare".
The government has since let it raise prices, but Petrobras still suffers political pressure, such as demands for big dividends, which help bolster Brazil's threadbare public finances.
ON THE edge of a dusty plateau near the northern city of Kunduz, Mohammad Khan and his family shelter in a threadbare tent.
The "assist" bit of operation Resolute Support, as the new mission is called, had looked threadbare.
Oxford and Cambridge, more than other British universities, still offer undergraduate students close attention from a designated don.The system is threadbare and arguably wasteful, especially as many students do little to prepare for their supervisions.
