Philistine

Example Sentences

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With this in mind, it’s tempting to read “Wool” as straight-up satire, focusing as it does on an ingenious but eccentric writer pitched against a philistine publisher.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2022

The resort, where much of the drama takes place, exerts its gaudy, philistine pull on the four main characters.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2021

This message is so blunt that even I, a Marxist and philistine, found its message a bit too clobbering.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2019

QT understands instinctively what Nabokov meant in his postscript to “Lolita”: “There is nothing more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.”

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker