philistine in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for philistine in the English»French Dictionary

I.philistine [Brit ˈfɪlɪstʌɪn, Am ˈfɪləˌstin] N

philistine

béotien/-ienne m/f

don't be such a philistine!

ne sois pas aussi béotien!

II.philistine [Brit ˈfɪlɪstʌɪn, Am ˈfɪləˌstin] ADJ

philistine attitude, article

béotien/-ienne

philistine public

de béotiens

Translations for philistine in the French»English Dictionary

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philistine in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for philistine in the English»French Dictionary

philistine [ˈfɪlɪstaɪn, Am -sti:n] N pej

philistine

Philistin m

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

In retaliation, he quenches all the festival bonfires and denounces the people as philistines.

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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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They are aggressively practical and philistine, with a loud contempt for anything that smells abstract or theoretical.

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The philistine crowd can never enter the world of a creator.

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