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Middle-of-the-road   /mˈɪdəl-əv-ðə-roʊd/   Listen
Middle-of-the-road

adjective
1.
Supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative.  Synonym: centrist.
2.
Not extreme, especially in political views.





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"Middle-of-the-road" Quotes from Famous Books



... fight that Roosevelt was waging in every hour of his political career. It was a middle-of-the-road fight, not because of any timidity or slack-fibered thinking which prevented a committal to one extreme or the other, but because of a stern conviction that in the golden middle course was to be found truth and the right. It was an inevitable consequence that first one side ...
— Theodore Roosevelt and His Times - A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement; Volume 47 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Harold Howland


Words linked to "Middle-of-the-road" :   center, moderate, centrist


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