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Meanings of anti-intellectual in English

Catalan
inculte

A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits.

inculte

Smug, ignorant, indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values.

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Usage of anti-intellectual in English
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They are creating an anti-intellectual culture, to make people easier to manipulate.
The Guardian
2
A little pleasure for pleasure's sake has never struck me as anti-intellectual.
The Guardian
3
It's a new variation of an old-fashioned populism that is anti-intellectual and anti-expert.
The Guardian
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Britain, until recently, has escaped the worst of these anti-intellectual excesses.
The Guardian
5
The Royal Society says New Zealand's anti-intellectual attitude is a thing of the past.
Radio NZ
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Such rejoicing in the negative just contributes to the anti-intellectual drift in modern discourse.
The Irish Times
7
Personally I've found it to be abrupt, devoid of actual decent reasons, and anti-intellectual.
The Irish Times
8
The Catholic Church in Italy continued for years to exert an unprogressive and anti-intellectual influence.
Colleges in America
9
The open source came out of the free software movement, which is very political, anti-intellectual property.
Wired
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It is anti-intellectual to see politics like this.
The Irish Times
11
More anti-intellectual than censorship is its apathetic absence.
The new yorker
12
The anti-intellectual Mafia do what they do.
The Irish Times
13
In its evangelical, popular guise, science becomes a matter not of reality or scepticism but of anti-intellectual reverence.
The Guardian
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He was anti-intellectual and emotionally attached to Buddhism; he opposed no serviceable officials of the sort he wanted.
A History of China
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Could one seriously imagine an African-American politician successfully playing the anti-intellectual card in the manner of George W. Bush?
The Democracy Project
16
Football fandom tends to have an anti-intellectual bent, while intellectuals have a bias strictly in opposition to the awesome.
The football fan's manifesto
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Catalan
inculte
Anti-intellectual through the time