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a philistine who cares only about making money
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Babbitt is a philistine with a sense that something is missing in life.
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"You want to be a hero, like Joshua at Jericho, like Samson against the Philistines." (source)Philistines = people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC (now the coast of Israel)
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Little philistines, all four of them.† (source)
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Day-to-day business could be taken care of by the philistines.† (source)
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The Jews were in the middle of a war back then, too, fighting against their most feared enemy, the Philistines.† (source)
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It's one hundred per cent.' 'I'm surrounded by philistines!' cried the young man.† (source)
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She's like a Philistine on a Sunday, the way she won't take but so many steps a day.† (source)
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McKisco's contacts with the princely classes in America had impressed upon him their uncertain and fumbling snobbery, their delight in ignorance and their deliberate rudeness, all lifted from the English with no regard paid to factors that make English philistinism and rudeness purposeful, and applied in a land where a little knowledge and civility buy more than they do anywhere else—an attitude which reached its apogee in the "Harvard manner" of about 1900.† (source)
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All such matters were not only foreign and of no significance to religion as such, but also inimical to it; for they were the constituents of life, or so-called health, which was to say, ultraphilistine, utter bourgeois existence—to which the religious world was ordained to be the absolute opposite, indeed the very genius of opposition.† (source)ultraphilistine = a person who is extremely uninterested in artistic and intellectual pursuits and valuesstandard prefix: The prefix "ultra-" in ultraphilistine means extremely or beyond. This is the same pattern as seen in words like ultrafast, ultrafine, and ultrasensitive.
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'He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don't know the difference between good and bad.† (source)
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Mrs. Brant smiled triumphantly, turned to the unhappy desk clerk, and said loudly: "Thank God there is one employee of this hotel who hasn't become an utter Philistine!† (source)
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Their personal philistinism simply adds brutality and double-darkness to policies they would be forced to support anyhow by the pressure of all their other policies — even were they, personally, devotees of avant-garde culture.† (source)
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In the broadest possible terms, what was the death of a few Philistines to save a nation of Israelites?† (source)
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She was completely unaware that with one twist of the tongue she could plunge Jean Louise into a moral turmoil by making her niece doubt her own motives and best intentions, by tweaking the protestant, philistine strings of Jean Louise's conscience until they vibrated like a spectral zither.† (source)
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By some odd fling in her birth, she had escaped all taint of Duckworth philistinism; she had none of their shrewd middle-class complacency.† (source)
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