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low-minded

American  
[loh-min-did] / ˈloʊˈmɪn dɪd /

adjective

  1. having or showing a coarse or vulgar taste or interests.


low-minded British  

adjective

  1. having a vulgar or crude mind and character

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of low-minded

First recorded in 1720–30


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Schemer, climber, manipulator, wielder of high-minded covers for low-minded exploitation, Morf doesn’t do much actual writing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2019

‘Because the Taliban themselves are low-minded, they think every woman and girl is just like them,’ the medical student says.

From Newsweek ● Dec. 12, 2012

It undermines authority and nourishes a low-minded culture of winks and smirks.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was not so base and low-minded as Poodles, and he felt a genuine shame for the mean conduct of which he had been guilty.

From Breaking Away or The Fortunes of a Student by Kilburn

Miss Milly said I should, for once, have a real low-minded junket.

From Daisy the autobiography of a cat by Miranda Eliot Swan

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