Russian
филистимский язык Spanish
idioma filisteo Extinct language spoken by the Philistines.
Smug, ignorant, indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values.
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The poet's quarrel with the philistine, in particular, is far from settled.
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Pence, unlike his philistine boss, was at least going to see Hamilton.
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It's not easy launching a new arts project in the current philistine climate.
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That impending activity requires alcohol in excess to reach peak philistine, I say.
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At heart, he had the philistine avarice of a true barbarian.
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Hence the claim of the philistine seems not to merit consideration.
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So much for your philistine ignorance of the possibilities of a romantic city.
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The philistine yawned and turned his passengers' thoughts to a more interesting matter.
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With Korps students, the butterfly becomes sooner or later a crawling, philistine grub.
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Robin finds these clothes offensive, and he detests Mrs. Brown as a philistine.
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Really, is any great genius quite sane according to philistine standards?
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This bill is philistine, an abuse of local democracy and an invitation to corruption.
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But it has given a new opportunity for philistine whingeing.
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It is merely the most philistine since the end of the second World War.
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The brotherhood loved him for the very qualities which the philistine would style defects.
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I know, I'm as much a philistine as most of you suspect I am.
