Babbittry
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Babbittry
Example Sentences
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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
Socrates, with brilliant irony, pleaded guilty only to an open mind; a majority of the judges, 280, steeped in Babbittry, voted him guilty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faculty pay is surprisingly poor at Western Reserve, but a new scholarly spirit is banishing an old Babbittry and attracting able researchers who like the labs as well as the living.
From Time Magazine Archive
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