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stereotyped

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Having a certain stereotype.
  2. Printed from stereotype plates.
  3. Unoriginal; stereotypical.

    “Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.”

    “There are too many gratuitous and insulting characters, like Mary Fisher's employee, a stereotyped Latino stud, and the old people in a nursing home who are presented as unindividuated and naively happy.”

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of stereotype