audience-proof

English

Etymology

audience +‎ -proof

Adjective

audience-proof (comparative more audience-proof, superlative most audience-proof)

1. Of a play, etc.: resistant to negative responses from the audience; popular with everybody.
   • 1951, Horace Wyndham, Chorus to Coronet, page 126:

     To fill in her time she wrote a three-act play which was produced at the Arts Theatre. It did not set the Thames on fire. "Of course," she admitted, "it was my fault for not writing an audience-proof play. […]

   • 1974, The Players Magazine, volume 50, page 42:

     Hazel Kirk had been fashioned out of ingredients that had long proven audience proof — a projected marriage […]

See also

• criticproof