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Recent Examples of clichéd Crossing off cliched character traits like orders on her waitressing pad, Lori is the daughter of a disgraced widow cop. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025 But historically, exactly that distant, cliched view of the race is the point on which many hundreds of horsemen and their athletes have made a mistake. Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 Yet much of what occurs feels cliched, as does much of the language and dialogue. Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025 The internet is rife with lifeless and robotic content, with creators (even senior-level business leaders) using the same prompts, cliched phrases, and tone so often that they can easily be spotted as purely AI with just a quick glance. Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025 This Marilyn is without even a smidge of the sweetness and vulnerability that features in even the most cliched takes on the icon. Greg Evans, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025 Much cliched blather is spoken in the biz about old shows that seem ripped from today’s headlines. Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025 It’s cliched to say, yes, but the image of the two of them, lying next to each other in the dark coal mine with the twinkles of the coal dust, lying there in the night sky. David Opie, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025 Key steers away from turning Charles into a cliched, overly cute caricature. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for clichéd
Adjective
  • Several leaders described the pressure of being both highly visible and easily stereotyped.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Their negative stereotyped reputation seems to follow them like ageism follows older employees or sexism follows female employees.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Some victims are already tired of fighting this fight.
    Ashley Belanger – May 19, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025
  • Susan Shalabi was exhausted - tired of traveling halfway around the world from Amman to Asuncion, tired of fighting against the soccer establishment.
    Samindra Kunti, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Yet these hackneyed qualities are minor aspects of a production that otherwise can be eye-opening and newly invigorating.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Its baleful guitar and hackneyed vocals make the average doubts shared by everyone who has ever been in love seem generic.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Like the trite Black Panther, Sinners is just ethnic heresy.
    Armond White, National Review, 18 Apr. 2025
  • But Gallot's more workmanlike prose and often trite observations, faithfully translated from the French by Arielle Aaronson, is better at capturing the nuts and bolts of this institution than its soaring spirit.
    Heller McAlpin, NPR, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Clichéd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clich%C3%A9d. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.

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