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>Cliché is a noun and is not an adjective. I wouldn't call this 'misuse', but evolution.
by Retra 11y ago
>Cliché is a noun and is not an adjective.
I wouldn't call this 'misuse', but evolution.
- dTal 11y agoAs the article notes by example, we have an adjective form already - "cliched". Overloading a word when you already have another perfectly good one results in a strict reduction in language usefulness (even if the effect is minor in this case).