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

Example Sentences

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

But Wick obscures his accomplish ments with showy Babbittry.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fixing upon a label for the rung above Babbittry, Mr. Lewis evidently recognized his grave responsibility to vocabulary, for he wavered and fussed, changed and substituted, before committing himself to "Dodsworth."

From Time Magazine Archive