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philistine

How to use philistine in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for philistine.

Editorial note

That's what makes him a philistine, after all.

Examples12
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of philistine gathered in one view.

noun

a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

noun

a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC

adjective

of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for philistine.

noun

a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC

adjective

of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people

adjective

smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

Example sentences

1

That's what makes him a philistine, after all.

2

I do spend a lot of time reading hex, but I'm probably a numeric philistine.

3

I'm outing myself as a philistine here, but how do you pronounce Kashi, if it doesn't rhyme with flashy?

4

[1] Yes, I'm aware that, in some people's eyes, this makes me the worst kind of philistine, but I'm a music fan, not an audiophile.

5

However, my inner philistine says that it is the Official Scrabble Dictionary that is the dictionary of choice.

6

The hacker culture and desperation of industry for coders has produced an ignorance, disinterest, and almost philistine disdain for the architectural skillsets.

7

Perhaps I'm a philistine about types but I've never found that model particularly expressive.\nMy late friend Alain Fournier once told me that he considered the lowest form of academic work to be taxonomy.

8

Yet we see far less experimentation there then we do with functional programming languages, and I think that's because functional languages are perceived as cool and smart but IDEs are associated with the philistine class of programmers.

9

And what can be better for dissonance reduction than someone telling you that you have good taste, and anyone who buys the competition is a philistine?I should point out that this does not impute anything to the quality of the products themselves.

10

[1] A philistine person is the man or woman who is smugly narrow of mind and of conventional morality whose materialistic views and tastes indicate a lack of and indifference to cultural and sthetic values.

11

From Wikipedia: "philistinism describes the social attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect; the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine.

12

I had assumed that the pun would excuse the sexist connotations of upskirt, that it would be an amusing bait-and-switch manoeuvre, that the author wanted to be able to say, "Hey, you thought I was being misogynistic, but in fact the error was yours when you failed to recognise my magnificently subtle wordplay, you philistine!

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use philistine in a sentence?

That's what makes him a philistine, after all.

What does philistine mean?

a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

What part of speech is philistine?

philistine is commonly used as noun, adjective.