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middlebrow

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Source Word

middlebrow

derogatory not-comparable

(derogatory) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.

Japanese Meaning

（軽蔑的に）高雅な文化や芸術と、低俗な大衆文化の中間に位置する様子を指す。 / 高尚すぎず、また単に大衆的でもない、中間の趣味・感性を持った状態。

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Her book collection was disappointingly middlebrow, full of safe bestsellers and recycled literary trends.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女の蔵書はがっかりするほど中途半端で見せかけの教養にすぎず、安全なベストセラーや使い古された文学的な流行ばかりだった。

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(derogatory) Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.

What does a Princeton graduate whose old dream it was to write for the New Yorker do when that dream comes true, only to discover that his cherished magazine is no longer the middlebrow arbiter of high culture of his imagining, but just another media outlet frantic for its market share of mass culture?

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