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APPLE-PIE

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ap⋅ple-pie

[ap-uhl-pahy]
–adjective
pertaining to or embodying traditional American values: apple-pie virtues; an apple-pie issue that no politician could vote against.
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ap·ple-pie   (āp'əl-pī')
adj.   Informal
  1. Perfect; exemplary: put the room in apple-pie order.

  2. often apple pie Of, relating to, or marked by values regarded as distinctively American: "Family, neighborhood, community are apple pie virtues, unassailable and unavoidable in political rhetoric" (Ronald Brownstein).

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