crowd pleaser
noun
a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
crowd-pleasing
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a word derived from
crowd pleaser.
Example Sentences
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“Dirty Harry” was condemned as racist and even fascist in its day; Dirty Marky paints a crowd-pleasing picture of how disregarding the rulebook could help topple the Ku Klux Klan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"When you go to Homer, it's a very crowd-pleasing story. It's popcorn stuff. I mean that's the joy of it and that's why it's endured for this long."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
O'Leary said that along with big-budget crowd-pleasing US films, a growing suite of international fare is helping to sustain cinemas.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Fusing couture-level spectacle with crowd-pleasing performance has long been Jacobs’ M.O.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026
The result was a crowd-pleasing perfect 10, firing up the Valentine’s Day home crowd and helping seal No. 4 UCLA’s 197.725-196.975 win over No. 9 Michigan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
