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cliché-ridden

cliché-ridden adjective: dominated or plagued by clichés.

Adjective

cliché-ridden (comparative more cliché-ridden, superlative most cliché-ridden)

  1. Dominated or plagued by clichés.
    • a cliché-ridden romance novel

Forms of cliché-ridden

comparativemore cliché-ridden
superlativemost cliché-ridden

Origin of cliché-ridden

From cliché + -ridden.

Questions about cliché-ridden

What does cliché-ridden mean?
Cliché-ridden means dominated or plagued by clichés.
What part of speech is cliché-ridden?
Cliché-ridden is an adjective.

Words near cliché-ridden in the dictionary

  1. cliches
  2. Clichy
  3. Clichy-sous-Bois
  4. cliché
  5. cliché verre
  6. cliché-ridden
  7. cliché-verre
  8. clichéd
  9. clichédly
  10. clichédness
  11. clichéed

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