Middle-brow

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of middlebrow. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "The high-brow would like to get rid of the middle-brow, but the middle-brow outnumbers him."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of middlebrow. alt-of, alternative

    "Characteristically, the middle-brow novel was thus written for and by middle-class women, and could be stigmatised, to use Adorno's term, as a middle-class, bourgeois activity."

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"Characteristically, the middle-brow novel was thus written for and by middle-class women, and could be stigmatised, to use Adorno's term, as a middle-class, bourgeois activity."

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