stock character
Example Sentences
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Because Neeson is so adept at rendering this stock character, he doesn’t always work very hard at it.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022
Merely a stock character from what Lewis’s friend and mentor H.L.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021
“He’s also very funny. It could have been a stock character but the writers were smart enough to craft a character that could show all the colors that Glynn has.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2020
Jharrel Jerome does what he can to add some shading to Smush, to make this stock character his own.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2020
The new viewpoint—Use all the stock character and situations you want, but add a new twist.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
