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Recent Examples of nonintellectual
In Cherkashin, Nash Sovremennik presented a model genealogy as well as a model Pushkin scholar: a righteous, passionate, nonintellectual man of the people.
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Kathleen Parthé, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2022
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
George, meanwhile, grew up in a cheerfully nonintellectual and inclusive household that celebrated Christmas and just about anything involving their son, even Lizzie.
—Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
Kathleen Parthé, The New York Review of Books, 18 Aug. 2022
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
George, meanwhile, grew up in a cheerfully nonintellectual and inclusive household that celebrated Christmas and just about anything involving their son, even Lizzie.
—Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonintellectual
Adjective
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Two decades later, Shuter is using his Substack, Naughty but Nice, to capitalize on the eternal appetite for the sort of outrageously lowbrow material once only found in the pages of gossip rags like the Enquirer.—
Dan Adler,
Vanity Fair,
12 May 2026
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The tension between highbrow and lowbrow comedy, and what is deemed acceptable by image-conscious Black middle-class audiences, continues to ignite fierce debate—nearly a century after Stepin Fetchit first appeared on-screen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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So the military ethos under Trump is aggressively anti-intellectual.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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Trump proved to be a vexing ideological lodestar—aggressively anti-intellectual in his attitudes and consistently inconsistent in his views.—
Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Stolen bases, once treated as a reckless relic of the uneducated past, are at levels not seen since the freewheeling 1980s.—
Chad Jennings,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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The animals help Tim, who proves uneducated in the methods of deduction, investigate a series of local suspects portrayed by Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, Emma Thompson, Kobna Holbrook-Smith, Nicholas Galitzine, Tosin Cole and Conleth Hill, among others.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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Trump cut education aid, people got ignorant.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2026
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While some plaintiffs who took the bait may have been only grossly ignorant, certainly some were guilty of bad faith, anti-Blackness, and opportunistic collaboration with white supremacy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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“Nonintellectual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonintellectual. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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