Lowbrowed

Three men came out from under the lowbrowed Tudor arch in the mellow facade of Mandeville College, into the strong evening sunlight of a summer day which seemed as if it would never end; and in that sunlight they saw something that blasted like lightning; well-fitted to be the shock of their lives. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Before the broom ever touched the object, he froze, his hand suspended in midair over a long-toothed, lowbrowed, hollow-eyed yellow skull. ❋ McLaren, Teri (1996)

And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them? ❋ Unknown (1969)

It never occurs to them that the woman is lacking in intelligence because of her refusal; nor that the man she prefers is a lowbrowed scoundrel. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)

How could a lowbrowed viking be expected to understand Boston, much less what was going to be Boston in a thousand years! ❋ Oliver Herford (1899)

He is lowbrowed, swarthy, ill kept, and wears rings in his ears. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

The sweet old corners he appreciates, the russet walls of moss-grown charities, the lowbrowed nooks of manor, cottage and parsonage, the fresh complexions that flourish in green, pastoral countries where it rains not a little -- every item in this line that seems conscious of its pictorial use appeals to Mr. Abbey not in vain. ❋ Henry James (1879)

Their rights are not one whit the more sacred because of this fact; but in an argument where injustice is sought to be excused because of fundamental differences of race, it is well enough to bear in mind that the race whose rights and liberties are endangered all over this country by disfranchisement at the South, are the colored people who live in the United States to-day, and not the lowbrowed, man-eating savage whom the Southern white likes to set upon a block and contrast with Shakespeare and Newton and Washington and Lincoln. ❋ Unknown (1895)

She was such a lowbrow she thought the [Weekly World News] was a [journal] of [opinion]. ❋ Octopod (2003)

[Dude], there was some [funny ass shit] on lowbrow. ❋ Al (2003)

I got [stoned] last night and 'browed for like, [four] [hours]. ❋ Bill Diesel (2005)

The tattoo studio downtown is having an [art show] dealing with lowbrow art. You should enter something if it looks [dirty or] offensive but happy and [cartoony]. ❋ Xsss (2007)

The Victorian Era was not only about Royalty, the Gentry and Upper Crust High Society, but also about the lower working classes who's taste were more than a little less refined, if not even downright coarse. Victorian Lowbrow would be defined in terms of: Sideshows and the Elephant Man, Victorian era tattooed ladies, strange medical exhibits, dime museums and East End shows, the cult of death and the funeral rituals of the lower classes, pubs, bars and saloons, public executions, titillating scandals involving death and betrayal, morbid legends such as Jack the Ripper and [Lizzie Borden], the [penny dreadful], Victorian drugs such as Opium dens, Absinthe rituals & Wormwood deliriums, Morphine syringes sold to High Society women, [Chloral Hydrate] fiends, [Laudanum] addicts, Secret Hashish Societies, laughing gas parties, and patent medicines. Also drinking one's cups, cocktails and grogs, Coach Inns and Night Houses, smoking pipes and cigarettes, morbid little jump rope songs, violent Punch and Judy puppet shows, Penny gaffs, the resurrectionists, graveyard picnics, and etc. The term Victorian Lowbrow was created specifically to describe the work of Madame [Talbot's] artwork. ❋ Madame Talbot (2005)