white-bread

white-bread

(wīt′brĕd′, hwīt′-)

adj.

Blandly conventional, especially when considered as typical of white middle-class America: "The proven ability of blacks to appeal to mainstream America ... shattered forever the mythology that only white-bread 'mainstream' culture could sell" (Joel Kotkin).

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white′ bread′

n.

any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usu. bleached, flour.

[1300–50]

white′-bread`

adj.

usage: This term is used with disparaging intent, implying a contempt for the values of the white middle class.

—adj. Informal: Disparaging.

1. pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: white-bread liberals.

2. bland; conventional.

[1975–80]

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

white-bread - of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class; "white-bread America"; "a white-bread college student" conventional - unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"

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