How to Use lowbrow in a Sentence

lowbrow

adjective

• The movie's humor is clearly meant for a lowbrow audience.
• But the lofty rhetoric of some podcasts makes the sometimes lowbrow nature of the ads feel at odds with the show.
  — Erin Geiger Smith, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• Colliau has even added to the menu a Long Island Iced Tea ($10), maybe the most lowbrow cocktail ever.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
• In short, Manliness is not the lowbrow male supremacy that bubbles up from the manosphere into the pages of The American Mind.
  — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
• There’s a highbrow/lowbrow theme to the menu, steered with aplomb by Executive Chef Martha Wiggins.
  — Paul Oswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
• Frank Campagna, owner of Kettle Art Gallery, said some of the gallery’s art could be considered lowbrow.
  — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• Our crazy mix of highbrow and lowbrow cultures and traditions.
  — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• Butter cheese sounds delicious in a vaguely lowbrow way, like Cheese Whiz.
  — Posie Harwood, Bon Appetit, 22 Jan. 2018
• The entire sketch was a risk — how many Comedy Central viewers have even seen the movie? — but the attempt at high lowbrow humor became a big hit.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• Here’s a look at three companies that are helping sheds to shed their lowbrow reputation.
  — Katy McLaughlin, WSJ, 1 May 2018
• One of the things that pleased me about how these cars were used, many of the owners of this car put them on display—granted in environments that were very lowbrow—but donated the proceeds to charities.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
• And few would argue that the man who once defined lowbrow culture is too fancy-pants in his image or sensibilities.
  — Michelle Cottle, The Atlantic, 5 June 2017
• So, either there’s one in New York magazine that’s despicable and lowbrow and highbrow.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 20 Aug. 2018
• The genre began as a form of entertainment that appealed to both society’s poor and its elite, even though it was considered trashy, lowbrow, taboo, and a kind of yellow journalism.
  — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
• The oddly lovable mutants Groening first flung at us 30 years ago ushered lowbrow satirical art into the mainstream.
  — John Ortved, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The oddly lovable mutants Groening first flung at us 30 years ago ushered lowbrow satirical art into the mainstream.
  — John Ortved, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• Which served as the foundation for what true crime has become now: a bankable and interesting extension of pop culture, and a far cry from its lowbrow beginnings.
  — Anne T. Donahue, Esquire, 10 May 2017
• The distinction between highbrow and lowbrow celebrities was once totally uncrossable, but the Bling Ring was obsessed with these second-tier stars.
  — Jessica Goldstein, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018
• The only complaints came from comics fans, who feared a cheesy musical would tarnish Spider-Man’s image, and from critics, who thought superheroes were too lowbrow for Broadway.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2015
• Early on, conservatives dismissed her work as lowbrow woo-woo.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 5 July 2019
• Leave it to Tyler, the Creator to incorporate a somewhat lowbrow pairing into an otherwise dapper look.
  — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 4 June 2018
• The app has a reputation for promoting lowbrow clickbait.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2019
• Granny panties had officially infiltrated the culture in ways both highbrow and lowbrow.
  — Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019
• The lowbrow art movement celebrates art from street culture that is more popular and accessible.
  — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The university is becoming the state's leader in hypocrisy and lowbrow entertainment.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
• Until the late 20th century, Mexico consumed more aged Spanish brandy and whiskey than tequila, which was regarded as a lowbrow spirit even its homeland.
  — Jason Wilson, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2018
• Trying to capture these readers considered too lowbrow by his father, Norman Chandler launched an afternoon tabloid, The Mirror, in 1948.
  — Joe Mozingo, latimes.com, 17 June 2018
• This self-awareness is especially welcome when Efron appears in lowbrow comedies.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2017
• The wonderfully sticky, melty American cheese is a nice, gleefully lowbrow textural touch.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• Embedded in his paintings and surreal installations are images of graffiti, lowriders, dogs and elements of the rasquache (or lowbrow).
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 21 June 2018

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