Meaning of Stepfordian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Resembling or characteristic of a Stepford wife; lacking personality or agency; docile.
2. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional town of Stepford; artificially perfect or pleasant; false.

Examples

“These gals are not wrapped up in some pert, Stepfordian happee homemaking bonanza.”

“But Piazza, whose flattened affect is ideally suited to pitching an oceanic array of products, makes such come-hither antics as posing shirtless for Sports Illustrated Women seem utterly Stepfordian. Indeed, he brings major rasa to the tabula.”

“She's so completely submitted herself to this Stepfordian world, to this Betty Crocker persona, that she can't fathom why he would stray from it - we see this when she later asks, quite honestly: "Do you hate me, Don?"”

“Co-starring Rory Culkin and Jamie Bell, it takes place in “a perfect neighborhood with perfect Monopoly houses,” she says. But scratch the Stepfordian surface, and you'll find all kinds of misery and dysfunction lurking.”

“I like a good apocalypse as much as the next American, which is why I’ll be braving the Stepfordian horrors of the local mall for the opening of 2012, Roland Emmerich’s latest exercise in disaster porn.”

“Aside from the utopian vibe there was a relentless Stepfordian positivity so that even that last traditional bastion of critical thought—gossipping about coworkers—was well out of bounds.”

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