Stepfordian

English Etymology From en Stepford ian. Adjective Resembling or characteristic of a Stepford wife; lacking personality or agency; docile. en Sarah Pettit Tying the Knot (Noose?) OutWeek 18 September 1989 https://archive.org/details/outweek/OutWeek%2013/page/n37/mode/2up?q=stepfordian 39 These gals are not wrapped up in some pert, Stepfordian happee homemaking bonanza. en 2002 Jeff Z. Klein Who Cares If He's Gay? Mike Piazza's a Big Sellout Details August https://archive.org/details/sim_details_2002-08_20_9/page/n51/mode/2up?q=stepfordian 52 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. en 2010 Will Dean The Ultimate Guide to Mad Men https://archive.org/details/ultimateguidetom0000unse/page/122/mode/2up?q=stepfordian 123 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?" en Resembling or characteristic of the fictional town of Stepford; artificially perfect or pleasant; false. en 2005 Danielle Pergament Camilla Belle Interview March https://archive.org/details/sim_interview_2005-03_35_2/page/n105/mode/2up?q=stepfordian 97 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. en 2012 Mark Dery I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams https://archive.org/details/imustnotthinkbad0000dery/page/188/mode/2up?q=stepfordian 188 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. en 2010 Franklin Schneider Canned: How I Lost Ten Jobs in Ten Years and Learn to Love Unemployment https://archive.org/details/cannedhowilostte0000schn/page/248/mode/2up?q=stepfordian 249 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. en Synonyms en Stepfordesque en terms derived from fiction terms derived from toponyms