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typecast
Alternative clues for the word typecast
- Given the same sort of parts
- Acts badly after work at keyboard getting the same parts?
- Give a fitting part
- Given similar parts
- In extremes of torment, Spacey furious, given predictable roles
- Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way?
- Not having many different parts?
- In the same familiar role
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. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cast repeatedly in the same kind of role identify as belonging to a certain type; "Such people can practically be typed" [syn: type ]
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.