unintellectual

Example Sentences

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Her intellectual rigour and her misanthropy are upended when she meets, on the flight over, a gauche, chain-smoking, defiantly unintellectual fellow from Tulsa.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2019

It’s so mysterious and fundamentally unintellectual it’s hard to dissect, hard to opine about at length, and much harder to natter on about week in and week out than dialogue or character or shot composition.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2016

The debate itself was set up in a distinctly unintellectual fashion.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2013

With “Madman,” which features Yael Stone as the various women in Poprishchin’s life, your appreciation of this laughter-to-terror metamorphosis remains largely intellectual, despite the decidedly unintellectual pratfalls and preening of its star.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2011

The walls can be covered now almost as cheaply with intellectual pictures as with unintellectual wall paper.

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)