white-bread
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- adjective
- /ˈwaɪtˌbrɛd/
- Slur
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[término despectivo para la clase media blanca]
- Mark near the top is right about the average under-30 person in a white-bread megachurch like Saddleback.
- too white-bread
- so white-bread
Like, for some reason, I came up with John Bingham, very white bread name.
- Like, for some reason, I came up with John Bingham, very white bread name.
- And and and in a very sort of white bread non.
Examples
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I mean, maybe I'm so assimilated into white-bread middle-class America that it passed me right by.
Academic text (1993) -
For those reasons and many more, every Black American knows that the Hollywood and TV-fed fantasies of white-bread America about how our justice system works are just that, a fantasy.
Blog text (9) -
The material you've been creating is too white bread.
Fiction book (2000) -
The first way, you're on your own and the decision to return to the white-bread world is yours alone.
Fiction book (1997) -
Until that moment, Carl Degler had been a decent, if white-bread, guy, and the meeting had been a joke on Christine.
Fiction book (1995) -
I was average, as undistinguished as white bread, plus burdened with a laugh like Daffy Duck's.
Fiction book (1998) -
We keep getting hints of Yoshino's more duplicitous and rebellious nature, but even as a kid, he seemed rather white-bread and straightforward.
Blog text (23) -
In her speech, she criticized the white-bread perspectives that dominate mainstream media.
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The restaurant's menu was filled with white-bread options that failed to excite adventurous eaters.
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Living in a small town can sometimes feel like a white-bread existence, lacking in cultural variety.
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
White-bread comes from the simple idea of white and bread: pale, soft loaves once popular with the 'middle class', so it grew to mean 'plain' or 'safe'. So, calling something white-bread suggests it is bland, ordinary, and tied to the 'middle class'.