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- noun Rule by the
ignorant and uneducated.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm a screamer too, to the extent that after a particularly vitriolic attack on the "boobocracy" my friends often crack "But tell us what you REALLY think".
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This sounds like hard-shell boobocracy even to those of us who think "survival of the fittest" has a faintly tautological whiff.
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This sounds like hard-shell boobocracy even to those of us who think "survival of the fittest" has a faintly tautological whiff.
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This sounds like hard-shell boobocracy even to those of us who think "survival of the fittest" has a faintly tautological whiff.
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From Sullivan & Co.'s perspective, Bush's public courting of the red state Babbits and the fundamentalist boobocracy suggests a want of taste.
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I usually chaulk stuff like this up to a phenomenon known as the LCD…the Lowest Common Denominator…or the boobocracy, as it was known in the mid 20th century, the great unwashed mindless masses, the consumers…you get the idea.
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
“The most significant publishing event since Dr. Johnson’s dictionary”
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