babbittry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 9
Definition of babbittry
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)Narrow-minded materialism.
“For most of this century, writers on the left have portrayed small cities as stifling enclaves of Babbittry and reaction, but today they are seen as refreshing oases from commercialized mass society—potential centers of community and local activism.”
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noun
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(uncountable)Narrow-minded materialism.
“For most of this century, writers on the left have portrayed small cities as stifling enclaves of Babbittry and reaction, but today they are seen as refreshing oases from commercialized mass society—potential centers of community and local activism.”
- (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of babbittry.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Babbitt + -ry, after the character in Sinclair Lewis' novel Babbitt.
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