cliché

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.