Middlebrow
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Art that tries to be [highbrow], but really isnt. Status-seeking middle class people buy [middlebrow] work to display, not to enjoy. Writer Virginia Woolfe famously decried middlebrow as a sticky [slime] of calves-foot jelly, though her work could be classified as middlebrow too. Still, as long as you actually read the books you buy instead of just using them to set of the furniture, who cares?
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Demanding, involving, or having only a moderate degree of intellectual application.
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Middlebrow music, literature, art, and films are of good quality, interesting, and often popular, but can be understood quite easily.
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(of art or literature or a system of thought) demanding or involving only a moderate degree of intellectual application, typically as a result of not deviating from convention.
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