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Definition of "typecasting" [typecasting]

  • Present participle of typecast. (verb)

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Use "typecasting" in a sentence
  • "And I agree — people focus way too much on the idea of typecasting as negative."
  • "Sometimes talent just isn't enough, and if the guy already looks wrong for the role way too dweeby, unattractive and nerdy looking, why bank on "probably" can play against his typecasting, which is also incongruent with the Pilgrim role?"
  • "I loved her in movies/TV because she seemed to be perfectly willing to give the people what they wanted and play a character rather than stomp around complaining about "typecasting" and how she was really a genius who read Freud and Hegel in her spare time."
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