washed-up - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • actor: My guess is that they are washed-up actors who have either had their day, or never really made it in the first place.
  • star: In ' Les Dennis ' , Andy gets a break playing in a panto alongside the washed-up TV star.
  • has-been: Not the bald, poncey, overweight washed-up has-been of today, but the funny, sometime action-man of the 70s and early 80s.

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