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Philistine Person Fill Ih Steen Noun Crude Ignorant Disinterested Culture

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(FILL-ih-steen), noun

A crude and ignorant person who is disinterested in and does not appreciate culture and the arts.

“A PHILISTINE is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist

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