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

Merely a stock character from what Lewis’s friend and mentor H.L.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 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

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

But that was evidently a convenient quotation of a stock character in controversy, just as πάντα δι᾽ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο was even more commonly.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William