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middlebrow /ˈmɪd(ə)lbraʊ /often derogatory adjectiveDemanding, involving, or having only a moderate degree of intellectual application: middlebrow fiction...- They do not like things that the vast middle class, middlebrow population likes.
- No thoughtful reader today would dismiss them as predominantly insipid or expressing nothing beyond a contemporary middlebrow understanding.
- I wish that the middlebrow worshippers of the simple would read the nursery rhymes in the light of their original meaning!
nounA middlebrow person.Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy....- We are, for better and worse, middle class and middlebrow right down to our bones.
- Highbrow journals like the Antioch Review and the Partisan Review condemned the middlebrows who controlled the mass media for fostering anti-intellectualism and mindless conformity.
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