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Word entry · 10 letters

middlebrow

Best crossword clue

"Neither artsy nor trashy"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPart of speech nounSorted bddeilmorwStarts with MEnds with W1 clues
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Definitions

  1. someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow

Word origin

From middle + brow, by analogy with highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and was later used by Virginia Woolf (1930s) in an unsent letter to the New Statesman, published as a chapter in the book The Death of a Moth and Other Essays (1942).

Used in a sentence

  • It's for this reason some regard Hanks with a sniffy attitude, seeing his middlebrow Hollywood fare as unfashionable (yes) and reactionary (no).

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