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stereotype English

Meaning stereotype meaning

What does stereotype mean?
Definitions in simple English

stereotype Noun

— To think of something or someone in one particular way, usually in a negative way. To say that all Chinese eat rice is a stereotype, because not all of them do.

stereotype

— noun a conventional or formulaic conception or image regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding — verb treat or classify according to a mental stereotype I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European

Synonyms stereotype synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as stereotype?

stereotype English » English

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Conjugation stereotype conjugation

How do you conjugate stereotype?

stereotype · verb

Examples stereotype examples

How do I use stereotype in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It is a stereotype that police officers always eat doughnuts.
It's an old stereotype.
Is that stereotype true?
It's a stereotype.
It's hard to get rid of the Soviet stereotype that the Decembrists were exceptionally noble, honest and fearless people.

Movie subtitles

I wouldn't stereotype her as someone that.
The monster is always to blame. - what a convenient stereotype.
I love being reduced to a cultural stereotype.
I do my best not to stereotype people.
I'm really not eager to talk to cops who have a chip on their shoulder. stereotype women from rape centers, and then go to any length to avoid them.
When someone is thin, single and neat people assume they're gay because that's the stereotype.
Although I'm sure there are, I don't want to perpetuate the stereotype.
You know, the blubbering stereotype.
No. It's a stereotype.
Grazie. Grazie. You have brought great joy to this old Italian stereotype.
I have mistakenly reduced you to a stereotype, a caricature instead of regarding you as a specific, unique individual.
It perpetuates an ethnic stereotype.
But up here, because it's logger territory. all these goonballs just wear flannel anyways. and then that's what became the stereotype here.
It's just a male stereotype.
The stereotype of an idiot.
Ishikawa was a stereotype of the post-war gangster and even today he lives on in legend.
It's a question of image, of overcoming a stereotype.
Not really in keeping with the stereotype.
I'm really not eager to talk to cops who have a chip on their shoulders stereotype women from rape centers and then go to any length to avoid them.
I'm so tired of that stereotype.
It's a stereotype and I resent it.
Man, I'd love to have a stereotype like that.
How can you stereotype women like that?
I am alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype.
Mulder, I'm alarmed that you would reduce this man to a literary stereotype.
I hate that stereotype.
That is such a stereotype.
A stereotype, huh?
Because I refused to demean myself by perpetuating the stereotype of the good dog?
It's a stereotype, and it's offensive.
Sorry to disappoint you, but that's a stereotype.
Dougie, if you continue in this manner, you are going to force me to unleash a salvo of gay-stereotype humour that will leave you quivering.
How willing we are to stereotype each other.
The stereotype of political left wingers as fucked up potheads is old fashioned.

News and current affairs

First, Sharon moved the Likud to the center, making it the hegemonic party, while destroying every stereotype about his personality, methods, and worldview.
Reality and stereotype reinforce each other in a reflexive fashion.
Their motives are too diverse to be reduced to any single stereotype.
He was very good at playing to that ancient Western stereotype of the Wise Man from the East.
The reality of change, however, has been hampered by the stereotype of continuity.
The Halappanavar case thus reverses the Western stereotype of Eastern societies as preserves of superstition and religious extremism.
In both countries, women protesters were nothing like the Western stereotype: they were front and center, in news clips and on Facebook forums, and even in the leadership.
At some point, women became powerful enough that they collectively rejected the high social value this narrative placed on a male offer of a ring and flipped the stereotype on its head.

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