stereotype
noun
a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group.
had stereotyped
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past perfectof stereotype.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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That background made him, by many estimates, a terrific judge of actors’ abilities far beyond the roles that had stereotyped them.
From Washington Post
Without my knowing it, it had stereotyped my temperament to one permanent and fatal mood.
From Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 by Frank Harris
Our parties once expressed deep divergencies of view upon issues of vital import; and each had experienced an individual leadership that had called forth and had stereotyped feelings of unbounded personal devotion.
From Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics by J. W. (John Wesley) Dafoe
It is of one of our leading houses who were publishing on their own account and had stereotyped one of his works from an early edition.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
She hadn't asked him not to, but Wade had stereotyped ideas as to the proper conduct of a rejected suitor, and he intended to live up to them.
From The Lilac Girl by Ralph Henry Barbour
