crowdpleaser
See also: crowd-pleaser
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crowdpleaser (plural crowdpleasers)
- Someone or something that is pleasing to the majority of a group.
- 2000, Stuart Oderman, Lillian Gish: a life on stage and screen, page 17:
- Moths and the Flame seems to be the crowdpleaser here, having matinee and evening performances.
- 2016 December 21, Michael Billington, “Art review – Rufus Sewell shines in finely shaded character study”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Is Reza’s play, in the end, a modern classic or a modish crowdpleaser?
Further reading edit
- “crowd-pleaser”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.