Sievelike vs Riddled - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between sievelike and riddled

is that sievelike is resembling a sieve; thus, having holes through which fluids can pass while riddled is damaged throughout by holes.

past tense of riddle.

*sieve-like

(en adjective)

Resembling a sieve; thus, having holes through which fluids can pass

a sievelike membrane

* ethmoid, ethmoidal

(en adjective)

Damaged throughout by holes.

Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.

The minister claimed that the old benefits system was riddled with abuse and fraud.

#* 2008 , Joan London, The Good Parents , Random House Australia, ISBN 978-1-74166-793-6, 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.

(head)

(riddle)