Babbittry
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Babbittry
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Lauck assigns most of the blame for this attitude to scholarly nabobs like Carl Van Doren, who led a “revolt from the village” sentiment that characterized the region as suffused with retrograde Babbittry.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2022
These stories are all satirical, making fun of Babbittry, small-town hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness, but the humor is mostly as fond as it is pointed, and the characters are never caricatures.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 22, 2016
Perhaps it's the general ambience that surrounds Carnegie today, evoking images of Babbittry, good-natured guffaws and glad-handing, the perpetual American boosterism, that provokes these reactions.
From Inc ● Oct. 24, 2012
Its angry crusadings against provincialism, the Bible Belt, Rotarians, evangelists, puritanism, Prohibition and Babbittry in general became sufficiently successful to seem a little antiquated and unnecessary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The author's feminine eye and ear for antipodean Babbittry and for significant styles in decor, clothes, deportment and accent make her a lively social satirist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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