All 3 Uses of
provincial
in
Arrowsmith
- Benoni Carr had all of Gottlieb's individuality, all his scorn of machine-made teachers, all his air of a great world which showed Mohalis as provincial, with none of Gottlieb's nervous touchiness.†
Chpt 8
- The provincial Arrowsmiths arrived on time, therefore fifteen minutes early.†
Chpt 26 *
- In Martinique were white-faced houses like provincial France, and a boiling market full of colored women with kerchiefs ultramarine and scarlet.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(provincial as in: provincial attitude) unsophisticated (meant disapprovingly to refer to old-fashioned or narrow-minded attitudes and ideas)