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Definition of Babbitt in English: Babbittnoun ˈbabɪtˈbæbət North American dated A materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman. Example sentencesExamples - Such expectations are contrary to basic principles of academic freedom and will contribute to a college or university ‘replete with genial Babbitts.’
- People who don't live in New York, Hollywood, or divide their time between Virginia, Hyannis Port, or Nantucket estates and their Georgetown mansions view the rest of us as Babbitts.
- I think she believed it would liberate the American imagination, and teach the googly-eyed Babbitts who beheld the pictures that sex was something more than they believed it was.
- It may have amused him to have at one stroke enraged liberals and fellow-travellers, Trotskyists, Stalinists and Stalinoids, not to mention conservative Babbitts.
Derivatives noun North American dated I had always rejected the suburban ideal of the carefully clipped and methodically poisoned greensward, with its connotations of Babbittry and mundane middle-class aesthetics. Example sentencesExamples - Lewis was already at work on Babbitt when he and Gracie traveled around England in 1921, and he prophesied, correctly, that ‘two years from now we'll have them talking of Babbittry.’
- Some emphasize the civil rights revolution of the 1960s; others the bulldozer revolution of the 1950s; still others the Chamber of Commerce Babbittry of the 1920s.
- Franklin's concentration on civic well-being and societies for mutual benefit have earned him a reputation for boosterism and Babbittry.
- The local Congressman is an embodiment of this narcissistic style, and of the sort of Babbittry that accompanies it.
Origin From the name George Babbitt, the protagonist of the novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis. Rhymes cohabit, habit, rabbet, rabbit Definition of Babbitt in US English: Babbittnounˈbabətˈbæbət North American dated A materialistic, complacent, and conformist businessman. Example sentencesExamples - I think she believed it would liberate the American imagination, and teach the googly-eyed Babbitts who beheld the pictures that sex was something more than they believed it was.
- Such expectations are contrary to basic principles of academic freedom and will contribute to a college or university ‘replete with genial Babbitts.’
- It may have amused him to have at one stroke enraged liberals and fellow-travellers, Trotskyists, Stalinists and Stalinoids, not to mention conservative Babbitts.
- People who don't live in New York, Hollywood, or divide their time between Virginia, Hyannis Port, or Nantucket estates and their Georgetown mansions view the rest of us as Babbitts.
Origin From the name George Babbitt, the protagonist of the novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis. |