Banausic

They used the term banausic for the low-cast, cringing souls involved in the making of things. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The term "banausic" comes from philosophy and concerns "the illiberal or vulgar arts," subjects with which Vidal has frequently dealt. ❋ Abbot, Steven (1975)

The gainful occupations, or any occupations pursued for gain, were "banausic," which meant that they had an effect opposite to that of cultivation. ❋ William Graham Sumner (1875)

Reporters must be honest in online personas, but not blah and banausic « Spreader of Gossip & Vice at 12:16 am, September 29, 2009 ❋ Unknown (2009)

So unromantic, so banausic, so thoroughly unappealing, yet for all that imponderably heroic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Greeks preferred the theoretical, the leisurely, to the busy banausic, or mechanical, life of labor. ❋ Michael Grosso (2004)

Perhaps Mr. Mazzocco's inventive use of the English language is the source of the confusion, with his "irriguous" organ and "banausic" muse which go "havocking" about the western world. ❋ Abbot, Steven (1975)

The Genoese, cavalier, are a banausic race, and penurious at that; they will go where the devil cannot, which is between the oak and the rind; opportunity given, they would sneak the breeches off a highlander: they divide their time between commercialism and a licentiousness of which, sordid as it is, they habitually beat down the price. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Compare the category of banausic trades in _de Off_, 1. 42. 150, although in the ❋ Unknown (1885)

· Provides simple and banausic user management tool, to manage CHAP users. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Provides simple and banausic management tool, to manage virtual drives. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It says: "Don't allow this banausic mob of Sunday scribblers to take control of the media from you - you who are educated, professional and enlightened. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Everything] or almost [everything] that has to do with [construction] is banausic. ❋ [email protected] (2017)