Audience-proof

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.

    "To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. "Of course," she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]"

Example

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"To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. "Of course," she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]"

Etymology

From audience + -proof.

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