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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I wouldn't expect a philistine like you to understand my paintings.
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The American desire for material goods caused Europeans to dismiss them as philistines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birmingham is still declaimed as smoky, grimy, unpleasant and philistine .
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Certainly she was no philistine , but a graphic artist herself.
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She says she's a bit of a philistine and doesn't know much about rowing, but hopes to find out.
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The ball diamond was a sanctuary not to be broken into by philistines.
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When will there be an end to the philistine approach of the Government who apply a cornershop philosophy to the arts?