Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- 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).
Wiktionary
- adj. US, pejorative conventional and boring
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class
Etymologies
- From white bread. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The white-bread Republicans are opposing the black president from nominating the Asian professor as judge.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Goodwin Liu’s Incomplete Questionnaire
“Just who is this guy with the plainest, most white-bread name in America?”
The Huffington Post: David Bourgeois: GOP Senate Candidate Ron Johnson: Pure Plastic
“Announcing Mr. Spivak's hire, the station's general manager, Jerry Nachman, told The Post: "Given the reluctance on our part to put the toothy, blond, stylistic, unoffensive, white-bread news talent on the air, this guy was destined.”
The Washington Post: Joel A. Spivak, radio personality and anti-smoking spokesman, dies at 75
“The former is the clean-cut ideal of an LDS doorbell-pusher: white-bread, well-groomed and safely asexual.”
“The culture needs changing: "When it comes to diversity, the NHL is not much different than Canada -- a white-bread majority with some who are still a little awkward with visible minorities," says David Shoalts in The Globe and Mail.”
The Huffington Post: Danny Groner: What's The Lesson From The Wayne Simmonds Banana Peel Incident?
“The phrase describes the melding of patriotism with a kind of non-denominational white-bread deism: it encompasses both explicit religiosity in public life the references to God in our founding documents and less well-defined but still-powerful expressions, such as the idea that the 9/11 dead are martyrs.”
“And please quite sounding like Sarah Palin, as if the only “real” Americans are those living in white-bread suburbs.”
“It's the most homogenized of the three, a white-bread sandwich of inoffensiveness but lacking in color all the same.”
The Huffington Post: Alma Katsu: A Glut of Capital Area Book Festivals
“The new version, by contrast, is a white-bread commodity musical that is transparently based albeit without acknowledgement on Sam Raimi's 2002 "Spider-Man" film.”
“I'm supportive of that: I don't want my kids to be white-bread like their mother.”
The Wall Street Journal: I Say Tomato, You Say Tabasco. Lots of It.
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
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chromatic phrases
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