low-minded
Americanadjective
adjective
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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
Eventually, he discovers that he is supposed to be mad, and that he is indebted to Sophia for the origin of the lie; also, that she is making rendezvous with the low-minded, flippant Moltchálin.
From A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections by Isabel Florence Hapgood
The picture she had drawn of him in her own mind was not a flattering one—composed of features and ingredients which represented all that was base, low-minded, and treacherous—a vulgar sycophant, and a merciless tyrant.
From The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever
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