All 8 Uses of
provincial
in
Main Street
- "But they're so provincial.†
Chpt 3
- A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.†
Chpt 7
- "A few years ago I was talking to a patent lawyer from Chicago, and I realized that——I'd always felt so superior to people like Julius Flickerbaugh, but I saw that I was as provincial and behind-the-times as Julius.†
Chpt 13
- His clothes were too heavy and provincial.
Chpt 17 *provincial = unsophisticated
- They had all the experiences of provincials in a metropolis.†
Chpt 17
- But a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance.†
Chpt 22
- If all the provincials were as kindly as Champ Perry and Sam Clark there would be no reason for desiring the town to seek great traditions.†
Chpt 22
- She concluded that it was because they were of secure reputation, not hemmed in by the fire of provincial jealousies.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(provincial as in: provincial attitude) unsophisticated (meant disapprovingly to refer to old-fashioned or narrow-minded attitudes and ideas)