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riddled
[ rid-ld ]
adjective
- filled with, and often thoroughly weakened by, something undesirable (used in combination):
For decades taxpayers subsidized this fault-riddled nuclear plant, with its defective reactors and substandard construction.
- pierced in many places (usually used in combination):
His bullet-riddled body was found two days later.
verb
- the simple past tense and past participle of riddle 2.
Word History and Origins
Origin of riddled1
Example Sentences
It is only then, once you are still, that a now low, whipping wind, riddled with sand begins pricking and abrading your skin and collecting in the pages of your novel; it is intolerable.
He’s a man riddled with contradicting views and tones, as is “The Shrouds.”
The 10% universal tariff is now riddled with exemptions, and the biggest carve outs are for many nations with massive trade surpluses from electronics manufacturing.
We had to operate carefully, because the country is riddled with informers and secret police who spy on their own people for the ruling military junta.
Mr Robinson, who runs Hello Starling, a Cardiff-based advertising agency, said vacancies at his business were attracting applications that were riddled with AI-generated sentences.
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