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Definition of anti-intellectual in English: anti-intellectualadjective Hostile or indifferent to culture and intellectual reasoning. many activists have adopted a profoundly anti-intellectual stance Example sentencesExamples - Towards the end of his life, he became increasingly paranoid, anti-intellectual, and anti-Semitic.
- He had a profound anti-intellectual attitude to medical elitism.
- If anything the anti-intellectual standpoint tends towards stasis, keeping things as they are and not trying too hard to change things.
- Fakes that fool scholars have been around as long as there have been scholars, and they have always created a good amount of anti-intellectual satisfaction.
- I wonder if some resentment the anti-intellectual crowd feels towards intellectuals is rooted in academia.
- His novels are anti-intellectual; they strive for an almost mystical epiphany that is experienced rather than understood.
- I was very much taken aback by his anti-intellectual comments on the Irish language.
- Why do liberals always accuse those who disagree with them of being stupid and anti-intellectual.
- I'm afraid my piece has reinforced a widespread, and in my opinion, wrongheaded anti-intellectual strain in design.
- There's a directness, an anti-intellectual quality to my art.
- The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down.
- No theologian, he was at times anti-intellectual: 'do not argue, but pray,' he advised his officers.
- Except in its most populist forms, conservative Christianity had rarely been as anti-intellectual as its liberal and moderate critics had claimed.
- There is an anti-intellectual movement in the USA.
- I always considered myself militantly anti-intellectual.
- To call that message "anti-intellectual" would be a comic understatement.
- Male culture has just become totally anti-intellectual.
- A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent.
- Those who object to their work find themselves castigated as anti-intellectual prudes.
- One realization that was particularly important for me was that faith in Christ is not anti-intellectual.
noun A person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and intellectual reasoning. funny, satirical plots that even anti-intellectuals will chuckle over Example sentencesExamples - Odd as it may seem, the education sector is filled with out-and-proud anti-intellectuals.
- The alternative is to make intellectual life increasingly irrelevant to human affairs, to turn intellectuals into hypocrites, and to turn everyone else into anti-intellectuals.
- Though we tease a bit, please don't mistake us for anti-intellectuals!
- Maybe I'm an anti-intellectual or just plain stupid.
- Many modern directors feel obliged to pose as anti-intellectuals, adopting a facade of stupidity they are unable to carry off with any conviction.
- The festival will have something to tickle the interest of all but the staunchest anti-intellectuals.
- Anti-intellectuals often are distrustful of science and hostile to its practitioners.
- It's easy for anti-intellectuals to make fun of poetry.
- Our profession is too frequently slandered by pundits, tinkered with by politicians, and devalued by anti-intellectuals.
- Indeed, the term "ivory tower" is generally used by anti-intellectuals to denigrate and marginalize the achievements of the academic world.
- I think I might be an anti-intellectual.
Synonyms lowbrow, materialist, bourgeois
Definition of anti-intellectual in US English: anti-intellectualadjectiveˌantī- Characteristic of an anti-intellectual person. many activists have adopted a profoundly anti-intellectual stance Example sentencesExamples - I wonder if some resentment the anti-intellectual crowd feels towards intellectuals is rooted in academia.
- One realization that was particularly important for me was that faith in Christ is not anti-intellectual.
- I always considered myself militantly anti-intellectual.
- To call that message "anti-intellectual" would be a comic understatement.
- Male culture has just become totally anti-intellectual.
- Except in its most populist forms, conservative Christianity had rarely been as anti-intellectual as its liberal and moderate critics had claimed.
- His novels are anti-intellectual; they strive for an almost mystical epiphany that is experienced rather than understood.
- Why do liberals always accuse those who disagree with them of being stupid and anti-intellectual.
- There is an anti-intellectual movement in the USA.
- If anything the anti-intellectual standpoint tends towards stasis, keeping things as they are and not trying too hard to change things.
- No theologian, he was at times anti-intellectual: 'do not argue, but pray,' he advised his officers.
- Fakes that fool scholars have been around as long as there have been scholars, and they have always created a good amount of anti-intellectual satisfaction.
- I was very much taken aback by his anti-intellectual comments on the Irish language.
- Those who object to their work find themselves castigated as anti-intellectual prudes.
- There's a directness, an anti-intellectual quality to my art.
- Towards the end of his life, he became increasingly paranoid, anti-intellectual, and anti-Semitic.
- A second-rate novelist and a furtively fabricating social commentator, he was homophobic, anti-feminist, unsociable, anti-intellectual, authoritarian and latently violent.
- The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down.
- I'm afraid my piece has reinforced a widespread, and in my opinion, wrongheaded anti-intellectual strain in design.
- He had a profound anti-intellectual attitude to medical elitism.
nounˌantī- A person who scorns intellectuals and their views and methods. funny, satirical plots that even anti-intellectuals will chuckle over Example sentencesExamples - Odd as it may seem, the education sector is filled with out-and-proud anti-intellectuals.
- Though we tease a bit, please don't mistake us for anti-intellectuals!
- Anti-intellectuals often are distrustful of science and hostile to its practitioners.
- Indeed, the term "ivory tower" is generally used by anti-intellectuals to denigrate and marginalize the achievements of the academic world.
- Many modern directors feel obliged to pose as anti-intellectuals, adopting a facade of stupidity they are unable to carry off with any conviction.
- Maybe I'm an anti-intellectual or just plain stupid.
- The alternative is to make intellectual life increasingly irrelevant to human affairs, to turn intellectuals into hypocrites, and to turn everyone else into anti-intellectuals.
- Our profession is too frequently slandered by pundits, tinkered with by politicians, and devalued by anti-intellectuals.
- The festival will have something to tickle the interest of all but the staunchest anti-intellectuals.
- It's easy for anti-intellectuals to make fun of poetry.
- I think I might be an anti-intellectual.
Synonyms lowbrow, materialist, bourgeois
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