cliched
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5.4
- adjective
- /klɪˈʃeɪd/
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cliché
- Her speech included many cliched phrases that lacked originality.
So as Ali probably said, it's OK to give cliched answers.
- So as Ali probably said, it's OK to give cliched answers.
- That's such a cliched example these days, but it's very accurate.
- Now it is a bit anodyne and it's a bit, you know, cliched.
- Now here today in looking back, well, my path and my business and my brand, they almost seem to follow that cliched rags to riches story.
- And I know that sounds cliched to a little degree, but let's get deeper about that because even saying dollars follow value, so create more value.
- I did the the very cliched thing.
- It like it's a it's like the most cliched.
- Undermine something that you want to believe or make things inconvenient for you. You know, I think like a cliched example is
- So to use a slightly cliched or or or aggressive phrase but then turn it is, I think quite a clever thing to do.
- Maybe is it cliched sometimes, but you could call childhood, and this is applicable for everyone, is when your training starts.
Examples
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Cliched, perhaps, but not bad.
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The cliched portrait of the president gazing into the eyes of a citizen and intoning that he feels their pain is the veritable source of Clinton's authority, as well as a wellspring of parody.
Academic text (1997) -
This is the most cliched hiding place you could have chosen.
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Well, and not to be too cliched about it, but I think that it's easy to define success as is getting what you want.
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The usual menu of cliched horror stories.
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That's such a cliched example these days, but it's very accurate.
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And then from that, in the most cliched way, you start noticing little sprouts of hope.
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Kenn won't let a cliched moment pass.
Blog text (2) -
It's like that old cliched scene you've seen where the Hollywood actress says to the director, you know, what's my motivation?
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Now here today in looking back, well, my path and my business and my brand, they almost seem to follow that cliched rags to riches story.
Synonyms
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5.8
Not original and trying to be touching but it feels silly
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3.1
Not new or interesting because of repetition
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6.6
Not new or interesting because it is used too often
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7.2
Used so often that it feels boring
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6.9
A thing made the same way every time and not new
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3.4
Not new or creative like ideas you have heard before
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7.6
No longer original or interesting because people use it so often
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5.1
Showing the same thing again and again in a boring way
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4.4
Showing the same simple ideas again and again
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4.8
Made in a simple, predictable way so many things look the same
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4.6
A phrase or idea used so often that it is no longer interesting
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4.0
Used so often that it does not feel new and seems boring
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7.9
Not interesting because people use it too often
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6.4
An idea or phrase used so often that it is no longer interesting
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7.4
Used so often it feels like a boring idea
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4.7
A phrase or idea used so often that it no longer seems new
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7.0
Having no original ideas and following a simple idea about a group of people
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9.9
Full of old or obvious ideas that seem important
Prepared speech or reply that always sounds the same
Not original, dull and trying to seem important
Boring because it uses words or ideas people hear many times
Antonyms
How Clichéd
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word cliched comes from the French word cliché, the name for a metal printing plate that could 'copy' the same picture again and again. So a cliched idea is like that plate — it is repeated so often that it feels tired and 'unoriginal'.