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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The only one worse for smart Velma to date than Shaggy might be the decidedly unintellectual, conspiracy theory-believing Fred.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2022
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
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
It is superfluous to recommend idleness to the unintellectual, but the intellectual too often undervalue it.
From The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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