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Recent Examples of unintellectual
In the novel, Julia is a highly sexualized, unintellectual figure who simply hates the control of the state, but the Sichuan University students turned her into a secret Party agent.
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Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintellectual
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The former Fox host Tucker Carlson, who opposed such an operation, sparred with two boosters: the current Fox host Mark Levin, and the Republican senator Ted Cruz, whom Carlson revealed to be ignorant of basic facts about Iran in a clip that went viral.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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Maybe LLMs get us 80% of the way there without any oversight, but skipping the context and being completely ignorant of what the machine is doing is typically not a good idea, partly for the reasons that the panelists laid out.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Still, despite the glut of legal graduates, his shift in focus was an unusual move for an ambitious young man in a country where farming is seen as a job for old, uneducated or poor people.—
Carmen Abd Ali,
New York Times,
20 Apr. 2025
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The Catholic Church openly collaborated with the Ustaše, whose support came largely from young men with rural, blue-collar, uneducated backgrounds.—
Larry Luxner,
Sun Sentinel,
5 May 2025
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But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2022
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There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.—
Brandon Tensley,
CNN,
23 Dec. 2022
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Actions that were meant to seem aggressive have instead come off as uninformed and unsustainable.—
Emily Kilcrease,
Foreign Affairs,
9 June 2025
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Even the most upstanding, compliant advisor can suffer catastrophic damage if a malicious or uninformed post makes it to the top of the search results.—
Chad Angle,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Even today, there are many settings in which the Christian faith is considered absurd, meant for the weak and unintelligent.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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The show and its participants were even parodied on Saturday Night Live in January, with comedian Ego Nwodim playing Amuli, and other cast members mocking people’s poor conversation skills and unintelligent dating decisions.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2025
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Is there any wonder the Valley’s illiterate overlords are embracing it?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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The Gospel authors, far from being community leaders preserving oral sayings for largely illiterate followers, were highly literate members of a small, erudite upper crust, distant in experience, attitude, and geography from any Galilean peasant preachers.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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While no single moment led to Housewives breaking away from lowbrow connotations to widespread acclaim, everyone can agree that RHOA played a crucial part in the evolution.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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There are few modern actors as purely watchable as Walton Goggins, a performer who is capable of both relishing in lowbrow material and elevating it with effortless charm.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Dec. 2024
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.—
Anne Wallentine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2024
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“Unintellectual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintellectual. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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