“Franklin's concentration on civic well-being and societies for mutual benefit have earned him a reputation for boosterism and Babbittry.”

“The local Congressman is an embodiment of this narcissistic style, and of the sort of Babbittry that accompanies it.”

“I had always rejected the suburban ideal of the carefully clipped and methodically poisoned greensward, with its connotations of Babbittry and mundane middle-class aesthetics.”

“Babbitt is a partner in a real estate firm in the fictional Midwestern city of Zenith, and a member of the equally fictional Boosters Club.”

“Babbitt is then applied on to this intermediate layer by static or centrifugal casting or by a welding treatment.”

“The Carbonite Babbitt Metal is a 4 To 5 Pound Bar and is the most serviceable low cost lead based babbitt metal for general utility uses.”

“It may have amused him to have at one stroke enraged liberals and fellow-travellers, Trotskyists, Stalinists and Stalinoids, not to mention conservative Babbitts.”