(~ed)
1.
If you describe something as a ~, you are criticizing it because it repeats old ideas, facts, or themes, though some things have been changed to make it appear new.
The Observer found the play ‘a feeble ~ of familiar Miller themes’...
N-COUNT: usu sing, N of n disapproval
2.
If you say that someone ~es old ideas, facts, or accusations, you disapprove of the fact that they present them in a slightly different way so that they seem new or original.
They’ve taken some of the best bits out of the best things and ~ed them...
VERB: V n disapproval