Philistine
Example Sentences
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After my own dalliance with carving cucumber slices to resemble Pac-Man, I knew exactly what my little philistine would do with dinosaur-shaped salmon cakes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Tacos.
From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2020
Let me reassure you, you are not a hopeless philistine if you find this all a bit foolish.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2019
It ill behoves either him or Bruckner to try to frame this as evidence of a vindictive philistine world.
From The Guardian • Sep. 1, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
