trope
Example Sentences
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“Women don’t want to see your fish,” a man reads in one ad, referring to the trope of men showing off fish they’ve caught in dating-app profiles.
The cop on his last day before retirement is a trope that needs to be sent out to pasture.
From Los Angeles Times
The other three stars of that show fought hard against that trope and typecasting.
From Los Angeles Times
The point was not to adjudicate whether the books are racist but to see what is revealed by the tropes and codes used to indicate racial difference.
We have the book to thank for so many tropes: forbidden love, friends-to-lovers.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
