Meaning & use
riddled
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Full of something undesirable throughout, such as holes, errors, or problems.
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The old fence was riddled with holes from years of woodpeckers.
The report was riddled with factual errors.
A note on using this word
Almost always followed by "with," as in "riddled with mistakes."
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