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Babbitt
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Babbitt
self-satisfied conformer to middle-class ideas and ideals. [Am. Lit: Babbitt]
See : Middle Class
Babbitt
anti-intellectual, bourgeois conformist. [Am. Lit.: Babbitt]
See : Philistinism
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The cup was of course intended to evoke the image of a street beggar, which is what high-minded PBS would have you think it had been reduced to by appalling congressional Babbittry.
PBS: Behind the Screen by Freund, Charles Paul / Reason
 
 
 
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