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materialistic

[ UK /mətˈi‍əɹɪəlˈɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /məˌtɪɹiəˈɫɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
    a bourgeois mentality
  2. marked by materialism

How To Use materialistic In A Sentence

  • There is no doubt that computers ‘play’ a very different kind of chess to humans which generally speaking is highly calculative, rather materialistic and unbelievably tenacious.
  • Sensual and materialistic, they want all the power, comfort and control they can get out of life.
  • It seems to be a connector or a medium between the materialistic world and the spiritual world.
  • Materialistic types can turn the page because there are no riches awaiting the winner.
  • The historical school mistaking what men have done for what men should do and, while often missing the full induction of the past, scornfully rejecting as empty apriorism deductive reasoning from the nature of man, presents a materialistic, evolutionary, and positivistic view of human society, which in no way appeals to sane reason. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • I have stressed, in the end, on prosperity but that should in no way be interpreted as a materialistic tendency.
  • In the words of one of its founders, noetic science is concerned with subjective experience as opposed to materialistic science (which is essentially interested in objective experience).
  • He was a Spencerian like you till Kreis turned him to materialistic monism. Chapter 36
  • Entering Tucson we passed the Ina Road exit - the exit I used to take to get to my mountainside retreat at Sin Vacas in the Catalina Foothills, a mega materialistic gated and guarded community.
  • I have felt that asking for money is grabby and materialistic and very opposed to all the qualities I am trying to imbue.
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