stereotype
Example Sentences
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These are not new stereotypes, but they have been amplified so much this year it is hard to see where the trust that is essential for restoring their relations can be found.
From BBC
At 10 he pondered Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s definition of the Russians as a “God-bearing nation” and concluded that “all national stereotypes were nonsense.”
“People tend to stereotype all things Jewish and what they don’t know about certain holidays with what they think they do,” Summers says.
From Los Angeles Times
When no one is around, the doleful ex-judge listens to Italian gangsta rap, and sometimes even raps along with it, suggesting he isn’t quite the stereotype others assume him to be.
These weren’t merely negative perceptions or ugly stereotypes, and fortunately these groups were willing to face reality.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
