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provincial
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provincial as in:  provincial attitude

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    An idiot in tight pants; oppressed by that prig of a husband; typically provincial and judgmental of everyone.  (source)
    provincial = unsophisticated with old-fashioned or narrow-minded attitudes and ideas
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    It was as if we were a provincial audience,  (source)
    provincial = unsophisticated
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    Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials.  (source)
    provincials = people thought to be unsophisticated because they are not from a large city
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    I shrank my own life. ... I settled for being pallid and provincial, out of my own eternal timidity.  (source)
    provincial = unsophisticated
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    You mean to say, none of this would have happened if jumped-up provincials hadn't been jumped up.†  (source)
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    Once we have broken free of the prejudices of our own provincially limited ecclesiastical, tribal, or national rendition of the world archetypes, it becomes possible to understand that the supreme initiation is not that of the local motherly fathers, who then project aggression onto the neighbors for their own defense.†  (source)
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    Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.  (source)
    provincial = unsophisticated (narrow-minded and/or old-fashioned)
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    "The numbers of his [Washington's] men are daily diminishing," wrote an English visitor who had recently "escaped from the provincials" at New York.†  (source)
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    The train presently arrived, and Miss Stackpole, promptly descending, proved, as Isabel had promised, quite delicately, even though rather provincially, fair.†  (source)
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    ...to correct Henry's provincial manners and speech and clothing.  (source)
    provincial = unsophisticated
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    There were too many people, provincials with foolish faces, foreigners poring over guide-books; their hideousness besmirched the everlasting masterpieces, their restlessness troubled the god's immortal repose.†  (source)
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    Meanwhile Nicholas Bulstrode had used his hundred thousand discreetly, and was become provincially, solidly important—a banker, a Churchman, a public benefactor; also a sleeping partner in trading concerns, in which his ability was directed to economy in the raw material, as in the case of the dyes which rotted Mr. Vincy's silk.†  (source)
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    But young men didn't — at least in my provincial inexperience I believed they didn't — drift coolly out of nowhere and buy a palace on Long Island Sound.  (source)
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    Before Josie had told the news Anne's highest pinnacle of aspiration had been a teacher's provincial license, First Class, at the end of the year, and perhaps the medal!  (source)
    provincial = related to a province
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    August bought me a new bed and a dressing table, white French Provincial from the Sears and Roebuck catalog.†  (source)
    French Provincial = a style of architecture, furniture, or design that originated in the French countryside in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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    Beyond is the vista he remembers so well: the residences laid out like a garden suburb with large houses in fake Georgian and fake Tudor and fake French provincial, the meandering streets leading to the employees' golf course and their restaurants and nightclubs and medical clinics and shopping malls and indoor tennis courts, and their hospitals.†  (source)
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    I was going to have Colonial this and French Provincial that.†  (source)
    French Provincial = a style of architecture, furniture, or design that originated in the French countryside in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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    The deck was covered in thick crimson wool, and the furniture was pure civilian, French provincial, oak and brocade.†  (source)
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    I stepped into a sitting room with French provincial furniture, the type with twisted claws, where I was received by a native matron who did a perfect imitation of a Parisian accent; she reeled off the price list, and asked me if I had anything special in mind.†  (source)
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    And hanging above the French provincial dresser, invisible in the darkness, was a painting by Vincent van Gogh.†  (source)
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    "They are interesting," I said, recalling the figure of a woman in a small French provincial town that was her world, and prison.†  (source)
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