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lowest common denominator
noun as in lowbrow person or audience
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Moving forward, perhaps the American food media could hold its readers to a higher standard rather than pandering to the lowest common denominator, which is precisely what happens when it measures women against a towering figure like Child.
As a member-run trade association, their position is often driven by the lowest common denominator.
We kind of reduce things to the lowest common denominator, in some ways for good and in some ways not for good.
Lowest common denominator campaigning and dumb pandering in this country dates back to at least the presidential election of 1800.
But the vast history of journalism has been about bias and yellow journalism and selling out to the lowest common denominator.
What will sexual liberation look like at the bottom-feeding, lowest common denominator?
Predictably, a communiqué that represents a consensus among such actors expresses a lowest common denominator.
In a fortuitous assembly of such people the lowest common denominator of morality is easily adopted as the standard.
That is a result of a mathematical mind; perhaps she can reduce even names to their lowest common denominator.'
Life was reduced to the lowest common denominator, the natural companionship of man, woman, and nature.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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