Sekirov Dictionary

philistine

/ˈfɪlɪstaɪn/

adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

adjective1

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Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.
- [Robert] Walpole, moreover, left England not only more corrupt than he found it, but crasser and more Philistine. — 1948

noun1

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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.
- If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines. — 1867

forms

philistines · more philistine · most philistine

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