Babbittry

American  

[bab-i-tree] / ˈbæb ɪ tri /

Or Babbitry

noun

(often lowercase)

1. the attitude and behavior of a Babbitt.

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Etymology

Origin of Babbittry

First recorded in 1925–30; Babbitt + -ry

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Example Sentences

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Babbittry

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

Says he: No " Booster" He Is Opposed By Amherst's Babbittry The only difference between the affair at Amherst and the affair at Clark is that they have nothing in common.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories.

From Time Magazine Archive

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