Sentence examples for stereotypic from inspiring English sources

The word "stereotypic" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something or someone as being characterized by a fixed or conventional pattern. For example, "The new drama show incorporated too many stereotypic characters and plot elements."

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stereotypic

adjective

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a stereotype; stereotypical

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A former student of Harry Harlow, the psychologist who is best known for his studies of socially deprived monkeys, Carlson, as she and Earls later wrote, found familiar "the muteness, blank facial expressions, social withdrawal, and bizarre stereotypic movements of these infants".

Over lunch, Alla spoke of the xenophobia of the earlier Russian-Jewish immigrants toward the newcomers from Central Asia and cited some of the more extravagantly stereotypic characterizations: the Bukharans were alien and not altogether civilized — savage, tribal people, capable of violence, even of murder.

"Unless you operated from a stereotypic understanding of the Yale white boy as rich, you wouldn't know that about Howard, Dawsonn, who graduated from an all-black public high school in Charleston, South Carolina, told me.

"That's a very masculine, macho culture, again a stereotype, and, in general, it's very hard for women or men to picture women being that way because that conflicts with the stereotypic norms of what women should be like".

Stereotypic bias runs through everything, she said, like lack of access to networks, lack of role models and gender definition.

Don't come to her office expecting the stereotypic mousy recluse buried beneath a mountain of paperwork, says Stefania Ricci, the museum director and archivist for Salvatore Ferragamo.

The creative was not developed from the ground up, there's nothing specific here to African-Americans except African-American models and what seems to be rather stereotypic patois coming out of a dog's mouth".

In 1969, Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term "ageism" to refer to the stereotypic and negative characterization of old age.

"It was not the stereotypic owner-master scenario," she said in a recent telephone interview.

When it comes to identifying exactly who the "Jews" are that she loves so unreservedly, Burchill tellingly rejects one set of stereotypic Ashkenazi characteristics – humour, chicken soup, kvetching, Woody Allen, fiddling on rooftops – in favour of those  advanced by the ethno-Zionists: intelligence, IDF machismo, "true" democracy, good looks etc.

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When parents have been asked to describe their 24-hour old infants, they have done so using gender-stereotypic language: boys are describes as strong, alert and coordinated and girls as tiny, soft and delicate.

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