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Meanings of clichéd in English
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
Synonyms
Examples for "tired"
Examples for "tired"
1
Of course, with the butchery, my hand is often tired these days.
2
In All-Ireland final week, you don't be long growing tired of words.
3
I'm tired of people saying 'I don't know if that is true'.
4
I am tired, in the heart, in the mind, in the body.
5
But the four-bedroom house is tired and in need of much work.
1
Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
2
But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
3
Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace.
4
But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace.
5
The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
1
In spite of the threadbare phrases, genuine pain vibrated in her tone.
2
The World Trade Center attack was a threadbare operation in many respects.
3
In the unlimited leisure of the wilderness, discussion had been worn threadbare.
4
Halfway across the threadbare lawn, a croaking voice erupted from the house.
5
Then to give the following, and cease before the thought gets threadbare:
1
The trite truth of the ratio between approach and enchantment amused him.
2
Nor does the trite epigram touch the surface of the real mystery.
3
Books could be written of the truth of this particular trite saying.
4
It's trite to say, but I'll say it anyway: This is revolutionary.
5
The rest took place with the trite rapidity of the equatorial latitudes.
1
But do we really need the banal content of the average tweet?
2
One reality is benign and banal; the other is invigorating and lethal.
3
However, most importantly, we have confused the public with these banal comparisons!
4
The democratic process does not discriminate between the banal and the dramatic.
5
This fact was not banal at all, but unprecedented, shocking, and wrong.
1
It shouldn't be necessary to repeat a list of hackneyed workplace virtues.
2
In the second place, the romantic is the opposite of the hackneyed.
3
This is a hackneyed, age-old argument used by gun-runners the world over.
4
The hackneyed words burned again with the freshness of their primal enthusiasm.
5
We amuse him more than the hackneyed comrades he has worn out.
1
Their escorts in varied suits of timeworn finery, the prisoners in rags.
2
Like all the others, it was completely intact, if a little timeworn.
3
That was another timeworn statement, but it served its purpose admirably.
4
Soon, Fred was busy deploying that timeworn bureaucratic weapon, the memo.
5
She crashed down onto the timeworn concrete floor, grazing her hands and wrists.
1
His tone changed, became less puckish; he elegized diversity with a shopworn .
2
There's the shopworn military cliche about every soldier being a sensor.
3
Instead, he attacked Obama's healthcare law with shopworn Republican campaign themes.
4
Chuckling owners trade these quips, each as shopworn as the tools scattered about.
5
They age badly for one thing and quickly look shopworn.
1
And Jove answered, My child, Trito-born, take heart.
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Tritos only has what we've given him.
3
Tritos was still under the barn.
4
Tritos is our experiment.
5
Tritos' usual smile dampened somewhat as he answered, "My father is dead and I have not seen my mother in some time."
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The activities of women in the church usually follow along well-worn paths.
2
DINING:Looking for some alternatives to the well-worn staples of the Christmas-Day table?
3
In order to reach Switzerland, the tourist has many well-worn routes available.
4
J.J. closed his rule book, slipped it in his well-worn calfskin briefcase.
5
I have to take little steps and to keep in well-worn paths.
1
It may seem weird to pour so much money into old-hat tech.
Usage of clichéd in English
1
Although quite clichéd, no two days are the same at the galleries.
2
I try not to repeat historical spaces as that can become clichéd.
3
A clichéd response to a husband's infidelity, yes, but oh so satisfying.
4
It sounded as clichéd in French as it would have in English.
5
They should leave their clichéd rhetoric and male-bashing propaganda at home.
6
Something so trite and clichéd that I'd refused to believe it was real.
7
The room disappeared, and as clichéd as it sounded, time stopped.
8
Africa is a place -as clichéd as it sounds -of possibilities.
9
I hoped that, as clichéd as it sounded, love really would conquer all.
10
She had mentioned this to Peter, wondered at this clichéd verity.
11
Our times together looked like the clichéd sequences in romantic comedies.
12
A clichéd choice for an entity of mathematics such as myself, I know.'
13
No generic, clichéd responses are evident in our one-hour sitting either.
14
The movie passes in a brightly-coloured daze of mediocrity and clichéd Latino exuberance.
15
Their conclusion sounds clichéd: Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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But retired factory worker Panagiotis Kalabokas said that clichéd image is simply not true.
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