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Meanings of lowbrow in English
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Examples for "philistine"
Examples for "philistine"
1
The poet's quarrel with the philistine, in particular, is far from settled.
2
Pence, unlike his philistine boss, was at least going to see Hamilton.
3
It's not easy launching a new arts project in the current philistine climate.
4
That impending activity requires alcohol in excess to reach peak philistine, I say.
5
At heart, he had the philistine avarice of a true barbarian.
1
They are creating an anti-intellectual culture, to make people easier to manipulate.
2
A little pleasure for pleasure's sake has never struck me as anti-intellectual.
3
It's a new variation of an old-fashioned populism that is anti-intellectual and anti-expert.
4
Britain, until recently, has escaped the worst of these anti-intellectual excesses.
5
The Royal Society says New Zealand's anti-intellectual attitude is a thing of the past.
Characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes.
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Usage of lowbrow in English
1
Give us your quick take on the following: Highbrow or lowbrow?
2
Well, if the highbrow does not have life's secret, perhaps the lowbrow has.
3
But not everybody is happy about Pakistani theatre's newfound love of the lowbrow.
4
And to think purists used to call comics lowbrow entertainment.
5
When he shrugged, I noticed that even his lowbrow suit had great shoulder tailoring.
6
If they must go lowbrow, I thought the Clinton sex scandal offered some opportunities.
7
The publicity material for The Ritepromises a festival of lowbrow shocks and sub-ecclesiastical kitsch.
8
It was kind of sexy in a lowbrow way.
9
Chips is a lowbrow name for a high-concept building.
10
So you don't worry about the station seeming lowbrow?
11
She had not, Alexia noticed, modified her elaborately styled ringlets to match her lowbrow outfit.
12
He didn't read much, not even the lowbrow daily papers that carried more pictures than print.
13
And the Shakespearean backgrounds of the actors involved add respectability to material often dismissed as lowbrow.
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It's not there to be highbrow or lowbrow.
15
It had everything from highbrow to lowbrow.
16
I'm little lowbrow in that regard, yeah.
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