Middle-brow
adj, noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 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."
Example
More examples"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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