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Recent Examples of unintellectual
In the novel, Julia is a highly sexualized, unintellectual figure who simply hates the control of the state, but the Sichuan University students turned her into a secret Party agent.
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Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 9 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unintellectual
Adjective
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Put simply, many Americans are woefully ignorant about the structure and features of their government.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
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Reading it, one is reminded, once again, that Trump is a politician who is cunning but semiliterate and ignorant.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The majority of those who move here are uneducated and poor and nearly all become economic burdens on the U.S., either directly or indirectly.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2025
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So Americans who don't travel, who 80 percent don't have a passport, who are uneducated, are in their extraordinary naivete.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
28 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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But Russians are also considered by their leaders as an unthinking mass that must blindly follow their leader.—
Andrei Kolesnikov,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Apr. 2022
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There’s the interest in Britney Spears and pop icons who had been assumed to be vacant, unthinking ingénues.—
Brandon Tensley,
CNN,
23 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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Many are under the misapprehension that reconfiguring the busing schedule would create an undue burden on the school system and wreak havoc on the school day, but this stance is uninformed and defeatist.—
Aysheh Abuarqub,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Jan. 2025
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Isaacson’s biography concludes before Musk thrust himself into the political arena as Trump’s uninformed booster and ATM ($270 million during the 2024 campaign).—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Google had to re-edit a Super Bowl ad for its artificial intelligence (AI) tool Gemini because the original ad had Gemini seeming artificially unintelligent.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
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Growing shares in each party describe those in the other party as more closed-minded, dishonest, immoral and unintelligent than other Americans.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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People in Europe were almost entirely illiterate, while there was a high degree of literacy and numeracy in the Muslim world.—
David Conrads,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Jan. 2025
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Would Bashir relinquish the south to let it be governed by a former enemy in a cowboy hat, who presided over a territory with fewer than 100 miles of paved roads and a population that was 80% illiterate?—
Jeffrey Fleishman,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The song is a cheeky touch, but also a nod to Daryle’s milieu: a lowbrow America of swamp tours, chain motels, and motorcycle shops.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
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What Should the New Name Be? Clearly, the goal was a name that felt neither too highbrow nor too lowbrow, as restaurants have been trending toward an unstuffy seriousness for decades.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
10 July 2024
Adjective
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Still, with this inspirational true story, the streamer stands to reach a much wider public than Perry’s typical audience, reminding how much of American history remains untaught and largely untold.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
6 Dec. 2024
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Until recent years, the story of how this period affected California’s Indigenous peoples had largely gone untaught or underrecognized.—
Anne Wallentine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2024
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“Unintellectual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintellectual. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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