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Crossword-Solution: CLICHE 6 letters, 74 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Word Word Type Definition
Cliche n. A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament,
or lettering, in relief.

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CLICHE anagram CHICLE

We have 74 clues for the answer “CLICHE”

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Screenwriter's no-no 1 answer
As different as night and day, e.g. 1 answer
Bit of predictable prose 1 answer
Commonplace phrase 1 answer
Expression that's as old as the hills 1 answer
It's overused 1 answer
Like a kid in a candy store, e.g. 1 answer
Many a predictable plot 1 answer
Oft-heard expression 1 answer
Overused idea 1 answer
Overused plot device 1 answer
Overused saying 1 answer
Overworked phrase 1 answer
Part of a formula, perhaps 1 answer
STEREOTYPE block 1 answer
STEREOTYPE plate 1 answer
Hot as a pistol, say 1 answer
Sign of a lazy writer 1 answer
Stale expression 1 answer
Stale saying 1 answer
Tired saying 1 answer
Trite or obvious remark 1 answer
Trite phrase. 1 answer
Trite remark 1 answer
Worn-out phrase. 1 answer
Worn-out words 1 answer
Writer's no-no 1 answer
over used phrase or expression lacking originality 1 answer
overused phrase or expression lacking originality 1 answer
stereotype phrase 1 answer
stereotyped phase 1 answer
stereotyped phrase 1 answer
A hackneyed phrase or idea 1 answer
Trite expression commonly repeated 1 answer
Overused phrase or idea 1 answer
"When all is said and done," e.g. 1 answer
"Hot enough for ya?," e.g. 1 answer
"Easy for you to say," e.g. 1 answer
"Back to the salt mines," for one 1 answer
A phrase or idea that has been overused 1 answer
neology 2 answers
You've heard it many times before 2 answers
You've heard it before 2 answers
Trite expression 2 answers
Tired phrase 2 answers
Overused phrase 2 answers
Hackneyed phrase 2 answers
Overused expression 2 answers
It's trite and true 2 answers
It is what it is, e.g. 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble CLICHE6-letter words that start with C6-letter words that end in E6-letter words containing LI6-letter words containing HE6-letter words with C and L

Sentences with CLICHE (5)

The book never was published; it was merely printed to satisfy the senescent vanity of a property-worshiping, cliche-parroting reactionary who made money ranching before he became governor of Wyoming.
Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest J. Frank Dobie 1995
The Home of the Spirit! It is an obvious cliche, just as in England some new sect might call itself the Church of Christ.
Greenmantle John Buchan 1996
The last song of the group she sang in English, for it was “Who is Sylvia?” There was a buzz of smiles and whispers among the front row in the pause before it, and regaining her own identity for a moment, she smiled at a group of her friends among whom clearly it was a cliche species of joke that she should ask who Sylvia was, and enumerate her merits, when all the time she was Sylvia.
Michael E. F. Benson 2006
And that old cliche about an ounce of prevention is truer of livestock raising than anything else I can think of.” “I have some more good news for you,” Blalok said.
The Lani People J. F. Bone 2001
Lord of Heaven, man, you have never begun to know what it means!” Oh, dear me! Here was the situation as old as the return of the Prodigal or the desertion of the trusting village maiden, or any other cliche in the melodrama of real life.
Simon the Jester William J. Locke 2006

Quotes with CLICHE (3)

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.
Flannery O'Connor
I am in this same river. I can't much help it. I admit it: I'm racist. The other night I saw a group (or maybe a pack?) or white teenagers standing in a vacant lot, clustered around a 4x4, and I crossed the street to avoid them; had they been black, I probably would have taken another street entirely. And I'm misogynistic. I admit that, too. I'm a shitty cook, and a worse house cleaner, probably in great measure because I've internalized the notion that these are woman's work…
Derrick Jensen The Culture of Make Believe
One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood
Tim Flannery The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 59 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).