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Made for purchase and immediate use.
custom-made
made
prefabricated
prefab
off-the-rack
off-the-shelf
off-the-peg
ready-to-wear
ready-to-eat
Repeated regularly without thought or originality.
cliched
unoriginal
cliched
1
The last thing I need right now is some
cliched
religious quotes.
2
His gesture is so comically
cliched
,
it is in fact, deeply moving.
3
The film's back-to-nature ending is perhaps a little pat if not
cliched
.
4
But she has certainly reinvigorated an often tired and
cliched
genre.
5
I understand the weariness with cardboard politicians and the
cliched
slogans.
Ready-made.
factory-made
1
So I have a
ready
-
made
black gown and hat in the trunk.
2
Social classifications
ready
-
made
are perhaps a great boon even for the people.
3
Just as it stood, it was itself a monument; a
ready
-
made
one.
4
She went online and found a
ready
-
made
community of people doing likewise.
5
But now the majority of the clergy buy them
ready
-
made
from Europe.
6
Joined to a certain proficiency in games, it supplies a
ready
-
made
nickname.
7
But it was sprung upon her from the outside, quite astoundingly
ready
-
made
.
8
He was looking over some boots and leggings and
ready
-
made
riding breeches.
9
Texts were suggested and
ready
-
made
and ready to deliver sermons were included.
10
They slept on the floor, and were fed only
ready
-
made
boiled noodles.
11
Buying a
ready
-
made
house and furnishing it would take days, perhaps weeks.
12
Swallows are quick to avail themselves of
ready
-
made
nooks for their nests.
13
Mr. Lincoln is sometimes claimed as an example of a
ready
-
made
ruler.
14
Maybe Mother was right about the war and thrift and
ready
-
made
frocks.
15
Generalizations and experiment statistics abound,
ready
-
made
for any structure of economic criticism.
16
No doubt we do, since language contains
ready
-
made
formulas and stereotyped phrases.