English to Belarusian Meaning of philistine - абывацель

Philistine :

noun

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Definitions of philistine in English

Noun(1) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits(2) a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
Adjective(1) of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people(2) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

Examples of philistine in English

(1) the lecture was a tremendous philippic against our culture(2) The smallest concession to a different view must now be scotched by this master of the pulpit philippic and the courtroom defence.(3) The other part of her book which has impressed me is her philippic on Europe and her call for Britain to begin the process of withdrawal from the European Union.(4) My Dad wanted me to read The Divine Comedy but my Mom gave him a philippic for even suggesting it.(5) They have also launched countless philippics against Labour's love of the target and the quota, and all manner of diktat from Whitehall.(6) I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics .

Related Phrases of philistine

(1) Philistine ::

абывацель

Related Phrases of philistine

(1) Philistine ::

абывацель

Synonyms

Noun

1. lowbrow ::

малаадукаваны

2. anti-intellectual ::

антиинтеллектуальный

Adjective

3. uncultured ::

нявыхаваны

4. lowbrow ::

малаадукаваны

5. anti-intellectual ::

антиинтеллектуальный

6. uncultivated ::

неразвіты

7. uncivilized ::

нецывілізаваны

8. uneducated ::

неадукаваны

9. unenlightened ::

неасвечанымі

10. commercial ::

камерцыйная

12. bourgeois ::

буржуазны

13. ignorant ::

невуцкі

14. crass ::

грубы

15. boorish ::

нявыхаваны

16. barbarian ::

варвар

Different Forms

philistine, philistines

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