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Meanings of materialistic in inglés

Marked by materialism.

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Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.

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Examples for "conservative"
Examples for "conservative"
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Aigner's southern conservative party CSU has long held power in the state.
Reuters
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Thus he must find a way to talk sense into conservative hard-liners.
NY Magazine
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However, the conservative website Baztab-e-Emrooz reported a different version of the events.
The Guardian
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Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus did not vote for it.
Reuters
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Why do even conservative citizens of these countries want universal health care?
Reuters
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When we were young, in our petit-bourgeois society, there were conversational taboos.
The Guardian
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The bourgeois talked peaceably to the working-classes of what was in preparation.
Les Misérables
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The rise and fall in bourgeois life follows a well established law.
The Goose Man
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The fright which the elections caused to the bourgeois has been diverting.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
5
The homicide was treated as an inevitable effect of Western bourgeois influence.
Death of a Red Heroine
Usage of materialistic in inglés
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The months ahead are likely to start on rather a materialistic note.
The South African
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Don't allow important decisions to be influenced by a subtly materialistic flavor.
The South African
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Kasser conducted a 2014 meta-analysis of hundreds of studies of materialistic values.
The Guardian
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Don't allow important decisions to be influenced by an overly materialistic flavor!
The South African
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Highly subtle planetary accents are likely to bring out a materialistic undercurrent.
The South African
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A generation of people who are materialistic, given to consumerism, and individualistic.
Reuters
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He is so earnest, so materialistic in his relation to the world.
The Abandoned Room
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A natural sympathy existed between her and his rather hard, materialistic mother.
The Prussian Officer
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Spiritual doctrines do not actually limit the mind as do materialistic denials.
Orthodoxy
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At length mediums or possessed by departed spirits alarmed the materialistic pastors.
Secret Enemies of True Republicanism / Most important developmen...
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Music says there is a desperate need to rethink our materialistic tendencies.
The Guardian
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Education becomes unreal and far fetched, while industry becomes ruthless and materialistic.
The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
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People who possess this type are essentially practical, logical, and rather materialistic.
Palmistry for All
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A very slightly materialistic attitude may be the root cause for this.
The South African
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But to me his very 'spiritualism' seemed more materialistic than his physics.
Phaethon: Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers
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We've been having a materialistic time, Marcella, ever since Huxley and Darwin.
Captivity
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