Philistines

Word PHILISTINES
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What do we mean by philistines?

A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

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The word "philistines" in example sentences

Secondly, the bourgeois, whom he called philistines, - the humbly living, contented, narrow-minded, timid, - whom he did not hate as much as he despised them with fervid scorn. ❋ Frederik Van Eeden (1896)

The type of men which my father called philistines has this common characteristic, that for all wonders and mysteries they forthwith find ❋ Frederik Van Eeden (1896)

The philistines were the image-breakers; they shattered the household gods and the patron saints. ❋ Unknown (2008)

World's top architect Frank Gehry brands Paris residents 'philistines' after planning permission revoked The world's most famous living architect has branded Paris residents "philistines" bent on "putting the French capital in formalin" after they succeeded in cancelling planning permission for his latest spectacular edifice. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And he's catering to the kind of clientele that Maurice Large, former president of the Beaujolais producers 'association, once denounced as "philistines" with a taste for "alcoholic fruit drink." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even then, however, it is not necessary to take the further downward step of despising the "philistines" who do not share it. ❋ Lewis, C. S. (1955)

The "philistines" are a band of dogged local residents waging a vocal battle against "concreting Paris' green areas". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Put bluntly, the whole situation is quite similar to the 'philistines' who enrage upper - class New Yorkers by carefully studying a typical piece of expensive modern art only to conclude that it resembles the finger-paintings and other assorted scribbles that most first-grade art students could produce on a single day of fun. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those who have the temerity to question this assertion are immediately dismissed as "philistines" who don't understand their own heritage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Buckley said Facebook was behaving like "philistines" and blamed the issue on "American puritanism". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Network Rail, whose staff painted over the poem, of being "philistines". ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed, its story and characters are probably so well-known that I do not need to mention them, but for those of you who are either philistines or live in a box, Marion Crane has stolen $40,000 from her employer to start a new life with her lover Sam Loomis. ❋ Daj42 (2009)

As endemic amongst the philosophers as amongst the philistines, this most degraded form of critique is deniable by an insistence that the review was intended as a compatibility assessment, but the insincerity of such claims is often transparent, the prescriptivism palpable in the text. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

This is not just about defending the free flow of information, something I wholly support, this is also about workers in a strange and insecure business getting robbed by cowardly thieves made rich by inadvertent philistines. ❋ Matthew Chapman (2012)

Because the same philistines who bastardized “innovation” and “design” will turn “Transformation” into something just as awful. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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