anti-intellectual

How To Use anti-intellectual In A Sentence

• After eight years of a presidency that valued cronyism over brains (or even competence) and embraced an anti-intellectualism apotheosized by Sarah Palin, it's a godsend to have a president who puts a premium on merit. Steven G. Brant: Progressives Deserve to Be Worried About the Obama Administration
• He claimed the party had become 'anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual and racist'. The Sun
• The Palindrome is part of anti-intellectual America's celebration of the ordinary, even the subordinary-the theater of accessible fantasies. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
• The alternative is to make intellectual life increasingly irrelevant to human affairs, to turn intellectuals into hypocrites, and to turn everyone else into anti-intellectuals.
• The festival will have something to tickle the interest of all but the staunchest anti-intellectuals.
• The anti-intellectual vulgarity does contribute to dumbing down.
• At its worst, it combined the naivety of the 1960s, the anti-intellectualism of the 1970s and the ravenous greed of the 1980s.
• Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
• Highbrow journals like the Antioch Review and the Partisan Review condemned the middlebrows who controlled the mass media for fostering anti-intellectualism and mindless conformity.
• Indeed, the term "ivory tower" is generally used by anti-intellectuals to denigrate and marginalize the achievements of the academic world.