philistine

  • 31Philistine — Philistie La Philistie est un État fondé par les Philistins (un des peuples de la mer) vers 1200 avant l ère chrétienne et situé sur la côte méditerranéenne autour des villes de Gaza et Ashkelon. C était une confédération de villes puis un… …

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  • 32philistine — adjective Lacking in appreciation for art or culture …

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  • 33Philistine — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Babbittish, Gothic, Middle American, anal character, arriviste, barbarous, bookless, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, callous, calloused, campy, carnal, carnal minded, case hardened, churl, clown,… …

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  • 34philistine — Synonyms and related words: Babbitt, Boeotian, barbarian, boeotian, boob, boor, boorish, boring, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, commercial, commonplace, crass, dull, ignoramus, lout, lowbrow, materialist, materialistic, middlebrow, narrow minded,… …

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  • 35PHILISTINE —    the name given by the students in Germany to a non university man of the middle class, or a man without (university) culture, or of narrow views of things …

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  • 36philistine — phil|is|tine [ fılı,stin ] noun count an insulting word for someone who dislikes or does not understand serious art, literature, or music ╾ phil|is|tine adjective ╾ phi|lis|tin|ism [ fılıstı,nız(ə)m ] noun uncount …

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  • 37philistine —  Person who is indifferent or hostile to matters of culture …

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  • 38Philistine — Phi·lis·tine || fɪlɪstaɪn n. member of the non Semitic people who inhabited southwestern Palestine during Biblical times adj. uncivilized, uncultured; crude, rough, obscene, vulgar …

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  • 39philistine — n. Commonplace person, prosaic man, practical man, utilitarian, mediocre person, narrow minded man …

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  • 40philistine — adjective my only mistake was thinking I could share something culturally uplifting with you philistines Syn: uncultured, lowbrow, anti intellectual, uncultivated, uncivilized, uneducated, unenlightened, commercial, materialist, bourgeois;… …

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