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Just a few words about cliches......<br><br> antiquated, banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny, everyday, familiar tune, hokey, moth-eaten, obsolete, old, old chestnut, old hat, old saw, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, overworked, pedestrian, played out, quotidian, run-of-the-mill, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, tripe, trite, unoriginal, well-worn, worn-out blah, bland, bromidic, clichéd, common, conventional, corn, corn-fed, cornball, corny, dull, everyday, flat, hackneyed, ho-hum, hokey, hokum, humdrum, insipid, no place, nothing, nowhere, old hat, ordinary, pablum, pedestrian,platitudinous, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy, zero, accepted, average, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probably, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, baseborn, characterless, cheap, coarse, colorless, déclassé, hack, hackneyed, impure, inferior, low, low-grade, mean, middling, nondescript, passable, pedestrian, plebeian, poor, prosy, raffish, second-class, second-rate, shoddy, sleazy, stale, trite, undistinguished, boiler plate, characterless, chestnut, clichéd, colorless, conventional, corn, customary, familiar, familiar tune, garden, garden variety, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, matter-of-course, mediocre, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebian, prevalent, prosaic, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, unnoteworthy, vanilla, widespread, workaday, bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight, banal, clichéd, commonplace, dull, feeble, hackneyed, mawkish, old hat, old-fashioned, sentimental, shopworn, stale, stereotyped, stupid, tired, abused, archaic, arid, big yawn, blah, boring, colorless, common,<br>commonplace, dead, dismal, dreary, driveling, dry, familiar, flat, hackneyed, heavy, ho hum, hoary, humdrum, insipid, jejune, longwinded, monotonous, oft-repeated, ordinary, plain, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, repetitive, routine, run-of-the-mill, senile, soporific, stale, stock, stupid, tame, tedious, tired, tiresome, trite, unimaginative, uninspiring, usual, usual thing, vapid, worn out, abracadabra, argot, balderdash, banality, bombast, bunk, buzzwords, cant, cliché, colloquialism, commonplace term, doublespeak, drivel, fustian, gibberish, gobbledegook, hackneyed term, idiom, insipidity, jive, jive talk, language, lexicon, lingo, mumbo jumbo, neologism, newspeak, nonsense, overused term, palaver, parlance, patois, patter, rigmarole, shoptalk, slang, slanguage, speech, stale language, street talk, tongue, trite language, twaddle, usage, vernacular, vocabulary, weasel words, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, avowed, celebrated, certified, common, confessed, conscious, down pat, established, familiar, hackneyed, manifest, noted, notorious, obvious, patent, plain, popular, proverbial, published, received, recognized, well-known <br><br>As opposed to......<br><br> deep, fresh, new, original, provocative, rich, abnormal, extraordinary, noteworthy, rare, uncommon, unusual, avant-garde, sophisticated, unique, dramatic, exciting, imaginative, inspiring, interesting, lively, stimulating, importance (great) .