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
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
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
The book clerk of this view is a familiar figure in the pages of humour, like the talkative barber or the comic Irishman of the vaudeville stage—a stock character.
From Walking-Stick Papers by Holliday, Robert Cortes
