provincialism
Example Sentences
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“He was sure that I would never steal, and my weaknesses, my provincialism, were more to his advantage,” Mr. Bakatin told the Russian journalist Oleg Kashin in 2008.
From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2022
You can have a provincialism growing up in a poor place.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2022
It is the opposite of provincialism: To my mind, it points to a theater town scaling new heights of worldly self-confidence.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2021
Perhaps we are biased by a bit of provincialism when it comes to Cleary, because she holds a special place in the Northwest.
From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2021
I was very backward in those days and the combination of poverty and provincialism made for some amusing incidents.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
