anti-intellectual in English
adjective
1
characteristic of an anti-intellectual person.
And it also underpins the anti-intellectual sentiment of much of the religious sermonising characteristic of Christian fundamentalism.
noun
1
a person who scorns intellectuals and their views and methods.
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 .
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1. Some Caudillos were self-serving, backward-looking, and anti-intellectual, while others were progressive and reform-minded
2. 1 In rejecting the reductionism of rationalism, the counterculture was so deeply anti-intellectual that it forfeited access to its own history.
3. ‘The nature of this Correctitude is most wholly dependant upon the constitution of the witness.’ ‘In the nation's cultural wars, he said, a leftist political Correctitude based on anti-intellectual premises had been replaced by a rightist one.’