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Significados de philistine en inglés

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idioma filisteo

Extinct language spoken by the Philistines.

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A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits.

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Examples for "lowbrow"
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Give us your quick take on the following: Highbrow or lowbrow?
NY Magazine
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Well, if the highbrow does not have life's secret, perhaps the lowbrow has.
Three philosophies of life
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But not everybody is happy about Pakistani theatre's newfound love of the lowbrow.
Reuters
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And to think purists used to call comics lowbrow entertainment.
Wired
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When he shrugged, I noticed that even his lowbrow suit had great shoulder tailoring.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator

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

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Uso de philistine en inglés
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The poet's quarrel with the philistine, in particular, is far from settled.
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poe...
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Pence, unlike his philistine boss, was at least going to see Hamilton.
The Guardian
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It's not easy launching a new arts project in the current philistine climate.
The Irish Times
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That impending activity requires alcohol in excess to reach peak philistine, I say.
Climbing Magazine
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At heart, he had the philistine avarice of a true barbarian.
Anno Dracula
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Hence the claim of the philistine seems not to merit consideration.
The Principles of Aesthetics
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So much for your philistine ignorance of the possibilities of a romantic city.
The Club of Queer Trades
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The philistine yawned and turned his passengers' thoughts to a more interesting matter.
The House of Toys
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With Korps students, the butterfly becomes sooner or later a crawling, philistine grub.
Greifenstein
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Robin finds these clothes offensive, and he detests Mrs. Brown as a philistine.
The new yorker
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Really, is any great genius quite sane according to philistine standards?
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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This bill is philistine, an abuse of local democracy and an invitation to corruption.
The Guardian
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But it has given a new opportunity for philistine whingeing.
The Guardian
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It is merely the most philistine since the end of the second World War.
The Irish Times
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The brotherhood loved him for the very qualities which the philistine would style defects.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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I know, I'm as much a philistine as most of you suspect I am.
The Irish Times
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