unintellectual
Britishadjective
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not expressing or enjoying mental activity
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not appealing to people with a developed intellect
Example Sentences
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Her intellectual rigour and her misanthropy are upended when she meets, on the flight over, a gauche, chain-smoking, defiantly unintellectual fellow from Tulsa.
From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2019
It’s so mysterious and fundamentally unintellectual it’s hard to dissect, hard to opine about at length, and much harder to natter on about week in and week out than dialogue or character or shot composition.
From Slate • Dec. 22, 2016
The debate itself was set up in a distinctly unintellectual fashion.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2013
With “Madman,” which features Yael Stone as the various women in Poprishchin’s life, your appreciation of this laughter-to-terror metamorphosis remains largely intellectual, despite the decidedly unintellectual pratfalls and preening of its star.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2011
This jealousy is, unfortunately, a mainspring of Greek politics, and when combined with a dislike of agriculture, as a stupid and unintellectual occupation, fills all the country with politicians, merchants, and journalists.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
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