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cliched

cliched \cliched\ adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality.

Syn: ready-made, routine, stock(prenominal).

Wiktionary
cliched

a. (alternative spelling of clichéd English)

clichéd

a. repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed. (from early 20th c.) alt. repeated so often that it has become stale or commonplace; hackneyed. (from early 20th c.)

WordNet
cliched

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases" [syn: ready-made]

Usage examples of "cliched".

Stiff hinges shrilled a cliched protest that scraped against the inside of her skull like nails on a blackboard.

The cliched green tile, stainless-steel equipment, instruments, tubes.

Sextius and his sidekick might have taken us seriously when we issued that old cliched invitation, do drop round for a drink some time.

Terry Dobyns, the NYPD therapist, the man who'd been sitting at Rhyme's bedside when he'd awakened after the accident at a crime scene left him a quadriplegic, had explained to the criminalist all the cliched stages of grief.

Terry Dobyns, the NYPI) therapist, the man who'd been sitting at Rhyme's bedside when he'd awakened after the accident at a crime scene left him a quadriplegic, had explained to the criminalist all the cliched stages of grief.

He seemed to be going for cliched image-the long gray hair, uncombed, the exaggerated brow ridge that got more prominent as Klingons aged, the unnecessary body armor and uncomfortable clothing, the sour attitude.

It probably sounds clichéd, but she was one of those people who are just full of life.