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Definition of "warmed-over" []

  • Warmed up; reheated: warmed-over tidbits. (adjective)
  • Not new, fresh, or spontaneous; stale. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "warmed-over" in a sentence
  • "Greece needs pro-growth economic reform, not another helping of warmed-over Keynesianism."
  • "One difference, then, is while Chopra relied on fashionable, irrational New Age gobbledygook, Pullman apparently draws upon creaky, warmed-over early nineteenth-century German Protestant theories that have been long abandoned by the vast majority (if not all) Scripture scholars."
  • "I don't much care for the warmed-over score that Jerry Herman contributed to "La Cage," but at least Mr. Herman made a good-faith effort to write musical numbers that reflect and amplify the show's underlying emotional current."