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Recent Examples of anti-intellectual
Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Conservative faculty are almost impossible to find at Harvard, and that absence has created a warped, often anti-intellectual, climate on campus.
—Samuel J. Abrams, National Review, 19 July 2025
The administration in Washington has seized on this time to advance an agenda that is decidedly anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-immigrant, and even anti-democracy.
—David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
This approach serves as a powerful contrast to any hollow, anti-intellectual and culturally bankrupt tyranny.
—Peter Nguyen, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
But the Library’s decline had begun much earlier, starting with anti-intellectual purges by Ptolemy VIII that predated even the first fire.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Lisa develops a crush on him, fueled mainly by her realization that Bergstrom’s sensitivity and love of learning fill needs that her often brutish and anti-intellectual dad isn’t equipped to handle.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Americans who hold anti-intellectual views were more resistant to vaccinating against COVID in the early days of the pandemic; more likely to believe that climate change is not human-caused; and more likely to express misperceptions about macroeconomic performance.
—Matt Motta, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024
Surprisingly, his American educational background did not cost him politically during Mao Zedong’s many anti-American and anti-intellectual campaigns.
—David Shambaugh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2022
Adjective
If that — and a title font that echoes Woody Allen’s go-to choice of white Windsor Light Condensed over a black background — sets anti-intellectual alarm bells ringing, then this might not be the film for you.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Conservative faculty are almost impossible to find at Harvard, and that absence has created a warped, often anti-intellectual, climate on campus.
—Samuel J. Abrams, National Review, 19 July 2025
The administration in Washington has seized on this time to advance an agenda that is decidedly anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-immigrant, and even anti-democracy.
—David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
This approach serves as a powerful contrast to any hollow, anti-intellectual and culturally bankrupt tyranny.
—Peter Nguyen, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
But the Library’s decline had begun much earlier, starting with anti-intellectual purges by Ptolemy VIII that predated even the first fire.
—Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Lisa develops a crush on him, fueled mainly by her realization that Bergstrom’s sensitivity and love of learning fill needs that her often brutish and anti-intellectual dad isn’t equipped to handle.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Americans who hold anti-intellectual views were more resistant to vaccinating against COVID in the early days of the pandemic; more likely to believe that climate change is not human-caused; and more likely to express misperceptions about macroeconomic performance.
—Matt Motta, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024
Surprisingly, his American educational background did not cost him politically during Mao Zedong’s many anti-American and anti-intellectual campaigns.
—David Shambaugh, Foreign Affairs, 30 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anti-intellectual
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In Cherkashin, Nash Sovremennik presented a model genealogy as well as a model Pushkin scholar: a righteous, passionate, nonintellectual man of the people.—
Kathleen Parthé,
The New York Review of Books,
18 Aug. 2022
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Such thumbnail indictments of the nonintellectual masses seemed to stem from Hofstadter’s own mounting sense of political and cultural homelessness in the postwar world.—
Chris Lehmann,
The New Republic,
16 Apr. 2020
Adjective
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Even women of color with a college education have a higher chance of dying in childbirth than an uneducated white woman, and that is shocking.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
30 Aug. 2025
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These consequences will not be limited to the poor, the uneducated or minority groups.—
Arthur L. Kellermann,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Who says the eyebrow and the lowbrow don’t mix?—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Any suggestion that this is some kind of victory for Combs is ignorant.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
27 Aug. 2025
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In this case, the problem is ethics in the medical profession, as young doctor Andrew Manson (Robert Donat) moves from idealism to disillusionment and back again when faced with ignorant patients who are skeptical of his conclusions, economic hardship, and crooked colleagues.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Anti-intellectual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-intellectual. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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