riddled

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riddled

riddled (comparative more riddled, superlative most riddled)

(also figurative) Damaged throughout by holes.
- 2024 March 20, Conrad Landin, “"Farcical" Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act isn't working”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 25:
  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".
Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
1. Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
  Synonym: lousy with
  
  Coordinate term: peppered with
  
  The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.
  - 2023 November 17, Blake Montgomery, “White House condemns Elon Musk’s ‘abhorrent’ antisemitic tweets”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:
    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”.
2. Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
  Synonym: -ridden
  
  a hole-riddled sweater
  - 2008, Joan London, The Good Parents, Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 235:
    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.