Philistine
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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
I, on the other hand, remain a philistine and a hayseed.
From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2022
It ill behoves either him or Bruckner to try to frame this as evidence of a vindictive philistine world.
From The Guardian • Sep. 1, 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
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