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low-browed

ADJECTIVE

unintellectual

Synonyms

WEAK

ignorant illiterate uncultivated uneducated unlearned unlettered unscholarly unschooled unsophisticated untutored

Example Sentences

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Neanderthals tend to be cast as the low-browed thugs of the prehistoric world, who stood little chance against the superior intellect and hunting prowess of our own ancestors.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2018

Willerslev said the latest findings added to the view that Neanderthals and other now extinct hominins, traditionally portrayed as low-browed prehistoric thugs, were “in reality not particularly different” from our own ancestors.

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2016

Through a low-browed doorway might be seen the horses of race-goers, standing "ready dight," like the steeds of Branksome Hall, with heads hanging, in resigned depression, before empty ranks and mangers.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Ross, Martin

That the muddy brick pavement, the low-browed shops, the leafless trees all seemed brighter than before, and that even the butcher's stall became almost a thing of beauty?

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

From it the dark opening of a winding staircase led upwards on one hand; on the other a low-browed door masked the course of the downward flight.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.