Threadbare is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 391 anagrams from letters in threadbare (aabdeehrrt).
First recorded in 1325-75, threadbare is from the Middle English word thredbare. See thread, bare1
Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful.
Instead, Carson tends to alternate between inflammatory arguments and threadbare truisms.
Sequestration tore at our threadbare social safety net, and this deal leaves the damage intact.
He weighed the stories he had heard from Shaky, and picked them threadbare.
When at length she felt a welcome jar and lurch her patience was threadbare.
Even though there is a threadbare concession stand, overflowing picnic baskets abound.
She pressed the cat to her threadbare bosom with a breathless exclamation.
On the other hand, the economic model is as threadbare as many of the buildings and much of the island's infrastructure.
It's a very good word, too, but sometimes I fear she will wear it threadbare.
His sentiments were, no better known in Boston than his threadbare clothes.