Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Blandly conventional, especially when considered as typical of white middle-class America.
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- adjective US, pejorative
conventional andboring
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- adjective of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012
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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.
David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012
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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."
Joel A. Spivak, radio personality and anti-smoking spokesman, dies at 75 2011
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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.
David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012
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The former is the clean-cut ideal of an LDS doorbell-pusher: white-bread, well-groomed and safely asexual.
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Just who is this guy with the plainest, most white-bread name in America?
David Bourgeois: GOP Senate Candidate Ron Johnson: Pure Plastic David Bourgeois 2010
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The white-bread Republicans are opposing the black president from nominating the Asian professor as judge.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Goodwin Liu’s Incomplete Questionnaire 2010
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The white-bread Republicans are opposing the black president from nominating the Asian professor as judge.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Goodwin Liu’s Incomplete Questionnaire 2010
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The white-bread Republicans are opposing the black president from nominating the Asian professor as judge.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Goodwin Liu’s Incomplete Questionnaire 2010
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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.
Danny Groner: What's The Lesson From The Wayne Simmonds Banana Peel Incident? Danny Groner 2011
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