Babbittry

American  

[bab-i-tree] / ˈbæb ɪ tri /

Or Babbitry

noun

(often lowercase)

1. the attitude and behavior of a Babbitt.

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Etymology

Origin of Babbittry

First recorded in 1925–30; Babbitt + -ry

Example Sentences

Lauck assigns most of the blame for this attitude to scholarly nabobs like Carl Van Doren, who led a “revolt from the village” sentiment that characterized the region as suffused with retrograde Babbittry.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

These stories are all satirical, making fun of Babbittry, small-town hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness, but the humor is mostly as fond as it is pointed, and the characters are never caricatures.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 22, 2016

Perhaps it's the general ambience that surrounds Carnegie today, evoking images of Babbittry, good-natured guffaws and glad-handing, the perpetual American boosterism, that provokes these reactions.

From Inc • Oct. 24, 2012

Babbitts," "Babbittry," "Babbittism'; became epithets applicable to all those who, like the prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town, a Big-Business Administration, private real estate developments, the Rotary club or God.

From Time Magazine Archive

Socrates, with brilliant irony, pleaded guilty only to an open mind; a majority of the judges, 280, steeped in Babbittry, voted him guilty.

From Time Magazine Archive