riddled
IPA: rˈɪdʌɫd
adjective
- Damaged throughout by holes.
- Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
- Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
- Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
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Examples of "riddled" in Sentences
- In 1997, Zelikow and Ernest May wrote a report about John F. Kennedy that is "riddled" with errors.
- District Court Judge Leonard Davis in Texas erred in upholding, and adding to, a jury verdict that the company describes as a riddled with mistakes.
- He had been ill since August and eventually became "riddled" with cancer, although still, to his eternal credit, enjoyed a glass of red wine and a cigarette.
- That finding suggests loneliness might be triggering dementia through a novel mechanism — one that doesn't lead to a brain riddled with deposits, Wilson says.
- When his glance fell away from her, his expression was riddled with tension, the straight lines of his mouth partially hidden under the dark bristle of his mustache.
- The price that is paid is that good men devoted to true American ideals get dragged down by a word riddled with corporate sell-outs, theocrats, loudmouths, and Nazis.
- Not only do this pair play it straight they also tend to ask questions in a manner the man in the street might and pull people up when they lapse into jargon riddled nonsense.
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