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(especially of a film or piece of writing) full of unoriginal or overused phrases or ideas.
‘a cliché-ridden love-triangle melodrama’
‘the chairman offered the usual cliché-ridden statement to the media’
‘Make no mistake about it, this is a cliché-ridden popcorn movie, but this time it's obvious the filmmakers intend it to be so.’
‘Both authors were quite disparaging of cliché-ridden questions.’
‘He wants to take your tired cliché-ridden definition of leadership and turn it upside down.’
‘For the most part, her carnal humour and her bizarre witticisms are undermined by the extraordinarily conventional and unimaginative way her story unfolds, which is replete with dreary and cliché-ridden homilies.’
‘These days, I have less and less patience for the corny dialogue and cliche-ridden plots of most games.’
‘It's a cliche-ridden, preposterous mess, full of ludicrously obvious plot holes.’
‘The modern reader suddenly remembers those Agatha Christie stories, in which the cast of cliché-ridden characters is bumped off one by one, while the éminence grise who invited them to the island or the country house lurks somewhere behind the walls.’
‘I hate sloppy, overblown, cliché-ridden language when it is used by those who should know better - not least when it is broadcast by the BBC.’
‘The characters lack imagination, they are steeped in gender biases, and the story is cliché-ridden.’
‘Yours was a welcome breath of clarity in an otherwise cliché-ridden media spectacle.’