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stereotypical

adjective

Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional

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The word 'stereotypical' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that conforms to a widely-accepted stereotype. For example, "John was wearing a stereotypical plaid shirt and jeans combo."

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He has been a director of Amnesty International for many, many years … You are trying to portray this man who has been a success and made some money as being stereotypical of the establishment when he is not stereotypical of the establishment.

The questions economists seek to answer, the tools they use to help find the answers (that's principally maths, rather than the applied topics that research suggests women are drawn to), the standard assumptions they make along the way (that people are emotionless, free and selfish), and the things they choose to measure all reflect a traditional and stereotypical male way of looking at the world.

I'm a Scot remember," he said, "and I like to play into the stereotype!" I heard him speak when I, like him, was a young SDP supporter at university, and he certainly was not stereotypical in any way.

There's also a lot of stereotypical "masculinity" on display (and not just Cedric's chest).

It was a refreshing surprise to encounter these glorious matriarchs in a country infamous for machismo and misogyny, where the stereotypical ideal female is the retiring mujer abnegada – a paragon of restraint and pious self-sacrifice.

Although branding Giggs as "thug rap" just media-boxes him in as stereotypical troublemaker aggressively glamorising violence, pragmatic Giggs pleads guilty.

The former Fermanagh/South Tyrone MP – now Lord Maginnis – was a far cry from the stereotypical image of the dour-sounding, sour-faced, bowler-hat-wearing caricature unionism often conjured up in the media.

"I don't want to be the stereotypical dad of my parents' generation, where he goes off to work and she stays home with the kids," said Hutchinson. "I want to be bonding with the baby when it's very small.

Biard and Congolese author Alain Mabanckou told the audience that Charlie Hebdo was and always had been "anti-racist", a reply to the criticism that the magazine portrayed French racial and religious minorities in a stereotypical way.

We (thankfully!) wouldn't accept an image of a hooked-nose Jew, so it is unclear to me why images of hooked-nose Arabs – because forget who the prophet Muhammad is to Muslims, he is an Arab man being depicted in racially stereotypical terms – isn't more disturbing to others.

Game of Thrones comes from such a richly drawn universe, and is awash with so many cultural signifiers beloved by so many stereotypical board game players, that it has been crying out to become a mainstream board game for years.

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