philistine in the PONS Dictionary

philistine Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

do not be such a philistine
не проявявай еснафщина

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The philistine crowd can never enter the world of a creator.
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Elitists are denounced as high brow snobs advocating an esoteric culture; populists are dismissed as pandering philistines promoting a trivialized and commercialized culture.
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In retaliation, he quenches all the festival bonfires and denounces the people as philistines.
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They are aggressively practical and philistine, with a loud contempt for anything that smells abstract or theoretical.
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