Philistine

Example Sentences

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I must add that, as you drive in Boston now, across the Longfellow Bridge to the Ted Williams Tunnel, it’s pretty obvious that high culture has its philistine competition.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

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

QT understands instinctively what Nabokov meant in his postscript to “Lolita”: “There is nothing more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.”

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

ISH: What I do when you start talking in a movie theater, you boorish philistine!

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019

The Jerry philistine proceeded to wad everything I could remember of “Tam o’Shanter” into balls of wastepaper.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein