stock character
Example Sentences
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Mama, as the stern but loving matriarch, is a stock character, and Sissy is written unsympathetically and almost exclusively speaks in the tenor of a whine.
From New York Times • May 24, 2023
Besson’s filmography mirrors the descent of this stock character so precisely, it could well all be his fault.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2019
Horvath never becomes much more than a stock character, an unfulfilled mid-century suburban husband.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2019
As the selling point here is the show’s take on autism, however, Sam is a somewhat newer, increasingly popular stock character — the high-functioning Aspie.
From Salon • Aug. 7, 2017
The new viewpoint—Use all the stock character and situations you want, but add a new twist.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.