stepford

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attractive but lacking any character
docile, unthinking and conformist
{i} name of the fictional United State suburb in the 1972 novel "The Stepford Wives" written by Ira Levin
{s} of or pertaining to a person who is unthinking and having the attitude of a robot (yielding and compliant)

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Stepford Wives
a horror film based on a book by Ira Levin, about a group of married women in a US village whose husbands secretly replace them with robots. The robots look exactly like the women, but they are designed to be interested only in cooking, cleaning their houses, and pleasing their husbands in every way. The phrase is sometimes used to describe women who behave in this way (1975)
The Stepford Wives
{i} 1972 novel written by Ira Levin (in which the men of Stepford replaced their wives with robots)