Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Opposed or hostile to intellectuals or intellectual views.
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- adjective
indifferent orhostile tocultural orintellectual ideas
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
- adjective smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
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Examples
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But I will fight you now as these lunatic, Palin loving, anti-intellectual, uneducated white trash bigots run the party.
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Can't wait to see the signs these anti-intellectual dullards come up with: "Tea Partiers Untie!"
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"I think standardized tests at the collegiate level are anti-intellectual," said Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University.
Eight ways to get higher education into shape Daniel deVise 2011
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The only thing these guys are competent at is being pathetic, anti-intellectual and funny as all get out with their 'Teabonics' and ridiculous mis-spelled signs. crew, md
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Sarah Palin couldn't even finish her term as governor of Alaska as her anti-intellectual curisoty doesn't allow for anything more than bumper sticker slogans; which is all her speech consisted of.
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Not only is Bachmann a fan of creationism and its anti-intellectual offshoot, intelligent design, she's made some outlandish claims about the pseudoscientific subject.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Michele Bachman's Stance On Evolution Demolished By High School Student Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2011
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Not only is Bachmann a fan of creationism and its anti-intellectual offshoot, intelligent design, she's made some outlandish claims about the pseudoscientific subject.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Michele Bachman's Stance On Evolution Demolished By High School Student Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2011
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As your nation flushes itself down the toilet Scott, it will be turds like you who scream that it was the lesbian multiculturalists wot did it - when it is the rampant stupidity and anti-intellectual screeds of people like yourself and Glen Beck that had their hand on the flush button.
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Not only is Bachmann a fan of creationism and its anti-intellectual offshoot, intelligent design, she's made some outlandish claims about the pseudoscientific subject.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Michele Bachman's Stance On Evolution Demolished By High School Student Ph.D. Michael Zimmerman 2011
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Her anti-intellectual stance, as well as her sophomoric understanding of reality merely make her a silly annoyance and public joke.
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