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She thinks Americans are too materialistic.materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
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I wouldn't describe myself as materialistic, but I would like some financial security.
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Often someone described as materialistic is thought to be deficient in one or more other areas such as human interest, the spiritual, the aesthetic, or the intellectual.
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A non-materialist. (source)materialist = someone highly concerned with wealth and possessions
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Preliminary Analysis of Social Patterns of Extraterrestrial Civilizations Using a Materialist Conception of History [omitted]† (source)
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These are just a few samples: Modern man thinks too materialistically; he does not see that there is a power of good and a power of evil quite apart from him, and that the course of life depends on the power to which he opens his heart ... We run into the occult again and again, especially in colleges and high schools.† (source)
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Plus I get to experience culture instead of mindless materialism.† (source)
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We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us.† (source)materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
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He's a materialist, no question, and his room is a warehouse.† (source)
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They are godless through and through, gross egotists, despicable materialists.† (source)
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My parents were nonmaterialistic.† (source)nonmaterialistic = not concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interestsstandard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonmaterialistic means not and reverses the meaning of materialistic. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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And how, Cedric, did that materialism manifest itself?† (source)
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I saw my life as if I stood apart from it, the vanity, the self-serving, the constant fleeing from one petty annoyance after another, the lip service to God and the Virgin and a host of saints whose names filled my prayer books, none of whom made the slightest difference in a narrow, materialistic, and selfish existence.† (source)materialistic = too concerned with wealth and possessions
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His father is a failure in business and therefore a great disappointment to the materialist mother.† (source)
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No. Materialists in the philosophical sense.† (source)
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Whatever their personal troubles, most seemed blissfully nonmaterialistic and free from the consumerist obsessions that drove the world Cole inhabited when he was not at work.† (source)nonmaterialistic = not concerned with wealth and possessions at the expense of other interests
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