Search for crossword answers and clues
Constantly given the same kind of role
Answer for the clue "Constantly given the same kind of role ", 8 letters:
typecast
Alternative clues for the word typecast
- Given similar parts
- Give a fitting part
- Petty cash running short unfortunately? Always in the same position
- Assigned the same kind of role repeatedly
- Roled up in one?
- Locked in a role
- In extremes of torment, Spacey furious, given predictable roles
- Always getting the same part of cooked pasty etc
- Pigeonholed as an actor
Word definitions for typecast in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I don't want to get typecast as a comedy actress. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Babur thinks he looks like a film star, the sort who gets typecast as a rugged mountain trapper. ▪ I don't want you typecast in khaki battle jacket. ...
Usage examples of typecast.
Every technological innovation was bitterly resisted by Luddite printers and publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustrations, cloth bindings, machine-made paper, ready-bound books, paperbacks, book clubs, and book tokens.
If central casting had sent him to an HD producer for the role of an over-bred, cretinous aristocrat, the producer would have sent him back with a blistering memo about stereotypes and typecasting.