white-bread
adjective
: being, typical of, or having qualities (such as blandness) associated with the white middle class
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This is because our hero stacker—that classic white-bread tomato sandwich with tomato and a slather of mayo—is all dependent on those ripe, juicy heirloom tomatoes plucked straight off the vine and cut into beefy slices.
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Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
He’s neutered down to a bland, depressing facsimile of himself here, a white-bread double-take machine reacting to the theoretical comedic stylings of Nicole Kidman.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
The painting portrays those familiar elements of white-bread suburbia: a little house with a yard beneath a cloudless sky.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
That’s the story that belongs to Carmen Lowell (America Ferrera), who spends her summer visiting her father (Bradley Whitford) and his exceedingly white-bread soon-to-be-step-family.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
That was when the white-bread hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won the Best Rap Album trophy over clearly superior works by Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Drake, and Kanye West.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
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Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 11 May 2025
He’s neutered down to a bland, depressing facsimile of himself here, a white-bread double-take machine reacting to the theoretical comedic stylings of Nicole Kidman.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
The painting portrays those familiar elements of white-bread suburbia: a little house with a yard beneath a cloudless sky.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
That’s the story that belongs to Carmen Lowell (America Ferrera), who spends her summer visiting her father (Bradley Whitford) and his exceedingly white-bread soon-to-be-step-family.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
That was when the white-bread hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won the Best Rap Album trophy over clearly superior works by Kendrick Lamar, Jay Z, Drake, and Kanye West.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
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“White-bread.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-bread. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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