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Spiritual gurus who use their power to facilitate sexual encounters with their students are something of a cliché.
I hate to use such a tired cliché, but it does feel like the more things change, the more they stay the same.
However, hard though it may be to write about love in a non-cliché way, Dunham sometimes pulls it off.
He presumably felt he owed it to himself to make one more visit to hell and report back with a cliché-busting dispatch.
“When we first came up with the idea, we were wondering if it was too cliché,” Carter says.
I don't want to go back into my life, I don't want to trot out the old 'more sinned against than sinning' cliché.
A word whose customary feeling-tone is too unquestioningly accepted becomes a plushy bit of furniture, a cliché.
We are so familiar with the venerable cliché that we can but wonder at its gift of eternal youth.
Wilderton listened, and thought: "Dreadfully cliché; why can't someone say straight out that boys enough have been killed?"
In making up a plate it sometimes happens that a cliché is placed upside down.
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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cliché, such as: adage, banality, boiler plate, bromide, buzzword, and chestnut.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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