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Definition

a person who is uninterested in artistic and intellectual pursuits and values

As a proper noun, Philistines were a people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC (now the coast of Israel).

a philistine who cares only about making money

Babbitt is a philistine with a sense that something is missing in life.
"You want to be a hero, like Joshua at Jericho, like Samson against the Philistines."
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic

philistines = people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC (now the coast of Israel)

In the broadest possible terms, what was the death of a few Philistines to save a nation of Israelites?
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
Viv is a little Philistine.
George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
The preacher also had a total disliking for Philistines.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree
whether he should fight against the Philistines at Keilah; and (verse 10.
Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
Little philistines, all four of them.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
She's like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won't take but so many steps a day.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
The Jews were in the middle of a war back then, too, fighting against their most feared enemy, the Philistines.
Lauren Tarshis -- I Survived: The Nazi Invasion, 1944
Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
By some odd fling in her birth, she had escaped all taint of Duckworth philistinism; she had none of their shrewd middle-class complacency.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
The Bible -- Genesis
It's one hundred per cent.' 'I'm surrounded by philistines!' cried the young man.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
I believe he seriously thinks me an awful Philistine; he says I don't understand my time.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
Watson talked all the time of things he did not care about, and while he looked upon Watson as a Philistine he could not help admiring him.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Into Jesse's mind came the conviction that all of the Ohio farmers who owned land in the valley of Wine Creek were Philistines and enemies of God.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio
Oh, Basil is the best of fellows, but he seems to me to be just a bit of a Philistine.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The Philistines be upon us," said Liddy, making her nose white against the glass.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
At school she had used to side with the Philistines in several battles, and had wondered if Pontius Pilate were as handsome as he was frank and fair.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native

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