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单词 middlebrow
释义 middlebrow
I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
Etymology: middle (I) + brow
1. : a person who is moderately but not highly cultivated
 < Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike — Rose Macaulay >
2. : a person who possesses or has pretensions to intellectual interests but who dislikes works of art and literature that are original or unconventional in nature or that require effort for comprehension : philistine
 < the middlebrows have become more intransigent in their opposition to everything that is serious and creative in our culture — Irving Howe >
II. adjective
: of, relating to, characteristic of, or suitable for a middlebrow
 < the safe and comforting patterns of middlebrow feeling — Irving Howe >
 < middlebrow culture attacks distinctions as such and insinuates itself everywhere, devaluating the precious, infecting the healthy, corrupting the honest, and stultifying the wise — Clement Greenberg >
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