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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
Adjective
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We’d be laughed at and called ignorant boors!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Dunk isn’t ignorant of what doing the right thing could cost him.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Additionally, data released by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics in September revealed that nearly half of the country’s youth population, aged 18 to 30, is unemployed, uneducated, or lacking training.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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Impeach this uneducated traitor to our values!—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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To stay in that state of unthinking presence was like walking a tightrope only to suddenly look down, panic, and come plunging back to Earth.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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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
Adjective
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They are left uninformed about what IRS notices signify, which enforcement measures are possible, and what outcomes can realistically be achieved.—
Kaitlyn Gomez,
USA Today,
19 Jan. 2026
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Education isn’t a cure-all, but uninformed workers are more exploitable.—
Terri Gerstein,
New York Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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And not because people are unintelligent — quite the opposite.—
JJ Rosen,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 Nov. 2025
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The life of an unattractive and unintelligent young woman living in a dreary backwater in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This cooking competition show takes a group of kitchen illiterate recruits and puts them through a culinary bootcamp designed to instill them with basic food prep skills.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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The real Nixon is often lumped in with our current President, but this is historically illiterate.—
Tim Greiving,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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His work embodies highbrow and lowbrow materials through a time in the 20th century when architecture was trending hard toward highbrow minimalism.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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Packed to the gills with butt jokes and big emotions, the latest cinematic adaptation of the Nickelodeon show about an earnest yellow sponge and his oddball, underwater friends provides the perfect reason to shut your brain off on Christmas Day and laugh at lowbrow humor for an hour and a half.—
Elaina Patton,
IndieWire,
22 Dec. 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 1 Feb. 2026.
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