materialist

noun

Definition of materialistnext
as in philistine
a person who is chiefly interested in material comfort and is hostile or indifferent to art and culture a materialist who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

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  1. capitalist
  2. lowbrow
  3. clown
Noun
  • Orbán, a pro-EU capitalist turned right-wing populist, was ousted in April 2026 after 20 total years in power.
    — Brett R. Chloupek, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
  • The tech leaders included Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive; Reid Hoffman, a LinkedIn co-founder; Vinod Khosla, a venture capitalist; Yann LeCun, a computer scientist; and Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of capitalist
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  • Embracing a visual vocabulary of the lowbrow and the rudimentary is a tried-and-true method of rebelling against a culture that feels vapid or corporatized.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 6 May 2026
  • Executives at NBCUniversal frame Bravo as a brand that represents a particular type of lowbrow-highbrow reality TV, and that even if the channel vanished, the brand could live on.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026
Definition of lowbrow
Noun
  • Perhaps most astonishingly, the movie manages to make creepy clowns — that shopworn trope — genuinely frightening again.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • The group demonstrated near the Washington Monument and was met by a few counter protestors, one of which played clown music throughout the majority of the demonstration.
    — Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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