philistine

philistine englannista suomeksi

1. moukkamainen, filistealainen

0. Substantiivi

1. i, moukka

2. moukkamainen

philistine englanniksi

1. Philistine

1. A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

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2. (quote-book)|series=The Works of Thomas Carlyle|seriesvolume=XXIII|edition=centenary|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|Charles Scribner’s Sons|year=1824|volume=I|section=footnote 1|page=22|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=O8wmAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22|oclc=30760879|passage=When he &91;(w)&93; wrote against Kant|Immanuel Kant's philosophy, without comprehending it; and judged of poetry as he judged of Mum|Brunswick mum, by its ''utility'', many people thought him wrong. A man of such spiritual habilitudes is now by the Germans called a ''Philister'', Philistine: Nicolai earned for himself the painful pre-eminence of being ''Erz-Philister'', Arch-Philistine. ... At present the literary Philistine seldom shows, never parades, himself in Germany; and when he does appear, he is in the last stage of emaciation.

3. (RQ:Arnold Essays in Criticism)&93; not one of Mr. Carlyle|Thomas Carlyle's "respectable" people, he was profoundly ''dis''respectable; and not even the merit of not being a Philistine can make up for a man's being that.

4. (quote-journal),(nb...)|month=July|year=1867|volume=XVI|issue=91|page=42|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cornhillmagazine16londuoft/page/42/mode/1up|oclc=561748243|passage=If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the future as well as the present, would inevitably belong to the Philistines.

5. (quote-journal)|date=18 July 1868|volume=VI|issue=133|page=92|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8kc7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA92|column=1|oclc=123899278|passage=Even the most pig-headed vestry-man feels that something unpleasant has been said about him when he has been called a Philistine, though he may have the vaguest possible conception of its precise meaning. ... It is used so vaguely by people who are themselves Philistines of the deepest dye, that it is in danger of losing its meaning.

6. (quote-book)|edition=3rd|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=American Book Exchange,(nb...)|year=1880|volume=VII|page=155|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IaMaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155|oclc=11919601|passage=Mr. Arnold|Matthew Arnold has no patience with the middle-class ‘Philistines’ the dullards and haters of light, who care only for what is material and practical.

7. (quote-journal)|date=1 July 1905|volume=XXVII|issue=1381|page=635|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=d8I5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA635|column=2|oclc=870086995|passage="Oh, the Philistine! The boorish Philistine!" he murmured; ...

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9. (quote-journal)|month=spring|year=1957|volume=3|issue=1|page=4|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yatUAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA4|oclc=490955579|passage=The object of such an aesthetic education is not the creation of a society of aesthetes. Aesthetes, in that pejorative sense, are as unbalanced as philistines.

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11. (quote-song)

12. Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.

13. (RQ:Nabokov Lolita)

14. (quote-book)|location=Milnthorpe, Cumbria|publisher=(publisher)|Cicerone Press|year=1991|page=25|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FtcYIpq6KtoC&pg=PA25|isbn=978-1-85284-066-2|passage=Visitors to the area are strongly recommended to have a look around the castle, for even the most Philistine of wild water canoeists cannot fail to be impressed by the enormous armoury, fine paintings and wonderful furnishings that seem to outclass all other museums and castles in the North East.

15. (feminine singular of)