How to Use stereotyped in a Sentence

stereotyped

adjective
  • All that fire and horror and angst feel stereotyped in their own right.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Those who had the strongest need for structure also made the most stereotyped judgements.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2011
  • Instead of stereotyped as a nerd who spends all of his time with a controller in his hands, he is seen as an elite competitor.
    Dallas News, 7 May 2020
  • But look past this stereotyped approach and Malibu Kitchen can be a delicious trip.
    David Farley, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2017
  • But Brazilians longed for a more nuanced, less stereotyped portrait.
    Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The findings, Vitale said, show that cats, stereotyped as distant loners, have gotten a bad rap.
    oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Pitt’s Jimmy was the show’s least stereotyped character.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Chatfield says that the producers wanted to avoid tokenism, as well as stereotyped portrayals of people of colour on the show.
    Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 20 June 2023
  • In a scene from the film, the two enact a stereotyped version of homosexuality as a form of prison yard humor.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 5 Jan. 2019
  • Damore wasn’t fired for harboring stereotyped views about women.
    Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The litany of restrictions might seem odd for a state that’s solidly Democratic and is known—or at least stereotyped—as being easygoing and fun.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Hartnell had been known for playing authority figures and heavies, and saw Doctor Who as a way out of this stereotyped rut.
    Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2023
  • For years, Asian women have been stereotyped as quiet, passive, and compliant.
    Deanna Pai, Glamour, 24 May 2018
  • It’s become something of a stereotyped custom in running communities to chow down on pasta the night before a big race.
    Outside Online, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Yet trans women who are very feminine are often accused of going over the top and presenting a stereotyped idea of what women should be.
    Jeanne Carstensen, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • But the first blush at the field reveals a big problem for the Republican Party and its stereotyped image as white dudes running the world between tennis matches at the country club.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
  • On the other side, bisexual women are almost always stereotyped to be straight.
    Eliel Cruz, SELF, 1 July 2017
  • There’s not a hint of overly stereotyped rivalry or cattiness, just unflinching loyalty in the face of a cruel world.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Finally, in a co-ed setting, girls feel the pressures to conform to more stereotyped gender roles, rather than feeling empowered to seek new challenges and take initiative.
    Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Sartre’s protagonist believes the singer is black and the songwriter Jewish, a stereotyped reversal.
    Gary Giddins, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Though these are common symptoms of OCD, the disorder goes well beyond what most of us are familiar with from stereotyped depictions in popular culture.
    Elizabeth King, Allure, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Unfortunately, post 9/11, many Arab founders were forced to fight for notoriety outside of the stereotyped Hollywood tropes.
    Soulaima Gourani, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Jews had been stereotyped for centuries across Europe as devious and untrustworthy.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Puerto Rican food and Southern food are both often stereotyped as unhealthy and relying heavily on fried dishes, but, as Diaz found, that’s a small part of a larger picture.
    Korsha Wilson, Bon Appetit, 23 Apr. 2018
  • People who saw words like ‘chaos’, ‘anarchy’ and ‘mess’ expressed a stronger desire for structure, and more stereotyped views, than those who saw orderly words like ‘structure’, ‘clarity’ and ‘neat’, or neutral ones like ‘chair’, ‘table’ or ‘ball’.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2011
  • Santa Ana has long suffered a bad reputation across Southern California and beyond, stereotyped as too crime-ridden, too Latino, too poor.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Raised in West Virginia, Sheldon was tentative about documenting addiction in a coal region that is more stereotyped than understood.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
  • But this easily stereotyped country is in fact rich with a diversity and complexity often lost beyond its borders.
    National Geographic, 1 July 2016
  • But this easily stereotyped country is in fact rich with a diversity and complexity often lost beyond its borders.
    National Geographic, 1 July 2016
  • These conditions led them to become stereotyped as industrious and servile, which affected how employers treated them.
    NBC News, 4 Oct. 2021

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