philistine
noun
a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
Philistinism
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a word derived from
Philistine.
philistinism
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a word derived from
philistine.
philistinenouna person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
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That’s an assumption rooted in familiar and endlessly fractious debates between art and commerce; elitism and Philistinism; an eclectic, connoisseurial sensibility and an incurious, consumerist one.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2021
In an essay promoting his idea, Smith quoted a British critic who damned America as “the apotheosis of Philistinism; where the people are drunk with materialism, and wealth is a curse instead of a blessing.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2021
I assume he doesn’t mean it this way, but this reads like a passionate defense of Philistinism.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2013
Philistinism," he realized, "had acquired a new content, a new set of conditioned reflexes.
From Time Magazine Archive
How is it possible, Lothair, that Ottmar's harmless and very innocent suggestion should at once set you thinking of clubs, and the Philistinism inherent in them?
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Not that I think the movies are dying, any more than they have been dying for the past 90 years or so, as they were fatally menaced by sound, television, corporate greed and audience philistinism.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
But suggest these things are wrong and you get hordes of opera lovers rising up to loudly protest your philistinism and ignorance.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2019
Mulvaney began his tenure with an open display of cocksure philistinism, taking potshots at Warren at a conference of appreciative credit union executives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019
Volle, 70, claimed the refusals showed the philistinism of modern publishing, which was “abandoning literary works that are not easy to read or that will not set sales records”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 12, 2017
Here we miss the robust philistinism of the eternal schoolboy, and the atmosphere of reality which pervades Tom Brown.
From The Lighter Side of School Life by Ian Hay
