riddled
/ˈɹɪdəld/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Damaged throughout by holes.
adj
Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
adj
Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
verb
simple past and past participle of riddle
Example Sentences
- "When the legislation was debated by the House of Commons, Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said it was "riddled with holes", while former Conservative Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said it was "badly written"."
- "The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud."
- "Riddled with guilt for having failed to oppose the project, Zac sacrifices himself by driving the truck into the lab, detonating the explosives at the same time as the Effect reoccurs."
- "Another anti-extremism organization, The Center for Countering Digital Hate, filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by X on Thursday, calling the suit “riddled with legal deficiencies”."
- "a hole-riddled sweater"
- "They took a swig each from an old bottle of sherry and ate some stale digestive biscuits sealed in a tin in the mouse-riddled cupboards."
Inflected Forms
more riddled (comparative)
most riddled (superlative)