riddled
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈrɪdld/
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plagado
- So the entire public health system is just riddled with these conflicts of interest.
And just a pension that's been riddled with scandal for decades now.
- And just a pension that's been riddled with scandal for decades now.
- They're playing a selfish power and dominance game riddled with entitlement.
- So the entire public health system is just riddled with these conflicts of interest.
- Boy, it is riddled with secrets, like juicy, juicy secrets.
- I was going like twice a week, riddled with anxiety.
- But I began by saying this is a flawed system riddled with with crony capitalism.
- So you have two sets of parents and they're all riddled with guilt in the way that they're handling.
- Such reconstructions will invariably be riddled with incongruities and uncertainties and lacunae.
- I don't think that I can go through having another dog that is riddled with the health problems that most of the Mastiff breeds are.
Examples
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A lot of taxes and that the inequality literature, he says, is riddled with errors and bad stats.
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These migrants are both super strong and riddled with disease.
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And so how young people are also treated in the system is riddled with stigma as well.
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Where Western Asia was riddled with massive earthquakes.
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And the text of the Deedemian Ethics is much more riddled with errors than most ancient texts.
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Venona showed that basically the Soviet Union had riddled the United States with Soviet spies.
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He is rich, alcoholic, and riddled with ailments.
Fiction book (2001) -
Such reconstructions will invariably be riddled with incongruities and uncertainties and lacunae.
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The old building was riddled with holes from years of wear and tear.
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Many historical documents are riddled with inaccuracies that misrepresent events.
Synonyms
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6.3
Full of problems or danger
Antonyms
How Permeated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word riddled first meant 'full of holes' from the image of a riddle ('sieve'), and people later used that image for ideas and things. So when we say something is riddled with doubt or corruption, we mean the bad thing is spread through every part.