Philistine
Example Sentences
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Simply put, if you can’t take Duchamp or conceptual art seriously, you are a philistine, by the definition of the art world.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022
This message is so blunt that even I, a Marxist and philistine, found its message a bit too clobbering.
From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2019
And the customers at the other end: philistine Britons, mainly, who drank the stuff with sugar and milk and let it stew in the pot for hours.
From New York Times • Oct. 8, 2019
QT understands instinctively what Nabokov meant in his postscript to “Lolita”: “There is nothing more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.”
From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019
At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
