culture vulture

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noun Slang.

a person with an excessive or pretentious interest in the arts.

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Origin of culture vulture

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby culture vulture

culture medium, culture pattern, culture shock, culture specific syndrome, culture trait, culture vulture, culture war, culturist, culturology, culturomics, cultus

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How to use culture vulture in a sentence

If my experience is any indication, the process is going to be a challenge for culture vultures.
I wondered what it would be like to be vaccinated and back in a theater. My panic lifted as soon as the lights went down.|Peter Marks|April 7, 2021|Washington Post
Charlie ridiculed my faith and culture and I died defending his right to do so.
The Muslim Cop Killed by Terrorists|Michael Daly|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A lot of the culture around movies in the sci-fi/fantasy genre is about deconstructing them ad nauseam.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire|William O’Connor|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Whether he gets his full due in popular culture remains to be seen.
Ed Brooke: The Senate's Civil Rights Pioneer and Prophet of a Post-Racial America|John Avlon|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating|Ellie Schaack|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In Cuba its culture commenced in 1580, and from this and the other islands large quantities were shipped to Europe.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The culture of expression is a very different thing from the artful imitation of the signs of feeling and purpose.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Its culture however was looked upon with the same disapproval by Charles II.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
It would be a modest guess that Accadian culture implied a growth of at least ten thousand years.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford

British Dictionary definitions for culture vulture

culture vulture

noun

informal a person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts

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Other Idioms and Phrases with culture vulture

culture vulture

An individual with a consuming or excessive interest in the arts. For example, A relentless culture vulture, she dragged her children to every museum in town. This slangy term may have been originated by Ogden Nash, who wrote: “There is a vulture Who circles above The carcass of culture” (Free Wheeling, 1931). [1940s]