stock character
Example Sentences
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Iago, one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains, is an updated version of this stock character.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026
Because Neeson is so adept at rendering this stock character, he doesn’t always work very hard at it.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022
It’s a balance she strikes most astutely on “Good Wife,” on which she’s torn between thinking that title role is a worthy goal and seeing it as a tragic stock character.
From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021
Jharrel Jerome does what he can to add some shading to Smush, to make this stock character his own.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2020
They have left to us denunciations of the man which have made him odious to all after-ages, so that modern poets have made him a stock character, and have dramatized him as a fiend.
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony
