philistinism
Example Sentences
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Swed pays tribute to a writer “who attacked philistinism without fear wherever he saw it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2019
But suggest these things are wrong and you get hordes of opera lovers rising up to loudly protest your philistinism and ignorance.
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2019
The best works produced under Company patronage are unparalleled in Indian art and show a sympathy with the Mughal world quite at odds with prevailing stereotypes of colonial philistinism and insensitivity.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015
“Frankly I don’t share it. Neither am I, or my fellow trustees, in favour of the ‘Let it fall down’ school of thought, which is simply an excuse for idleness, apathy and philistinism.
From The Guardian • Jun. 16, 2015
Gig′man, one who drives or keeps a gig—a favourite term of Carlyle's for a narrow philistinism based on the possession of a little more money than others, whence Gig′maness, Gigman′ity, Gig′mānia.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
