Search for crossword answers and clues
Constantly given similar roles
Answer for the clue "Constantly given similar roles ", 8 letters:
typecast
Alternative clues for the word typecast
- Pigeonholed, in moviedom
- Acts badly after work at keyboard getting the same parts?
- Petty scam largely formulated and staged in same way?
- Petty cash running short unfortunately? Always in the same position
- Given similar roles repeatedly
- In extremes of torment, Spacey furious, given predictable roles
- Given the same sort of parts
- Always landing similar roles
- Like some players, strain on pitch
Word definitions for typecast in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also type-cast , with reference to actors, 1937 (implied in typecasting ), from type (n.) in the "general character" sense (perhaps a deliberate pun on the verbal phrase in the printing sense "to found types in molds," attested from 1847). See type (n.) ...
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.