secondhanded

The clerk studied them. "You could get secondhanded ones for half price," he told Aunt Julina kindly.

You know, they had these secondhanded stores. Dad went to get me a pair of knee pants, but they'd been here too long!

We "speak of the things that we have seen," and not as one who offers secondhanded reports.

The common error in most architectural schools is that basic design is taught at an abstract level using contemporary artists as examples to go by. This secondhanded process usually produces little Mondrians, Bauers, Gabos, Moores or, if the faculty member has enough to offer, little duplications of himself.