clichéd

This is contemporary sound to dispel clichéd fears of abrasive modernism while never cheaply pandering to mass appeal.

Too often, he found, they relied on "clichéd", post-colonial motifs.

"I know it’s a bit of a cliched word but it does provide a little bit of closure too, I guess," she said.

It toggles back and forth in time to juxtapose moments that create meaning, but a scene of Almut deciding against treatment followed by her getting her haircut—a cliched literary device that signals life change!—is typical of how heavy-handed the film is.

Three games into his tenure, this innings had all of the hallmarks of a cliched captain’s knock.