- a variation of Midwestern.
Middle Western
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Harry S. Truman was different again, and yet in his own way he represented the country, in its Middle Western, small-business, common-sensical strain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2018
How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall?
From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2014
Curiously, the Death of Croat Raditch caused a potent repercussion in the household of a famed U. S. Middle Western couple who are now honeymooning* in England.
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The reiteration of once successful jokes and pleasantries is peculiarly Middle Western.
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Take the case of a Middle Western corporation.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
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