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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
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Media pundits and the health care insurance industry are surprised, blissfully ignorant that their elite position guarantees prompt care with minimal frustration.Arthur E Palamara, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
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Heller seems blissfully ignorant of what motherhood means — as if pregnancy resulted only from violation, not mutual engagement.Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
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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
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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 naïveté.James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
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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
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The reason isn’t because people are uninformed or want children to get sick.Catherine Tan, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
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This statement tells you how uninformed these guys are about the federal government workforce.Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 17 Dec. 2024
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In short: Wells assumed Neanderthals were unintelligent brutes.Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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But the gullible, easily-led and unintelligent — and the media — all fall for the lie.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Nov. 2024
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This beloved sitcom centers on three members of the IT department at the fictional Reynholm Industries — technicians Roy (Chris O'Dowd) and Maurice (Richard Ayoade) and their (ironically) technologically illiterate manager Jen (Katherine Parkinson).Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 27 Sep. 2024
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India was a poor and illiterate nation, torn apart by caste and religion and encumbered by centuries of custom and tradition.Madhav Khosla, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2020
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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
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Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slasher masterpiece embraced its lowbrow status with its matter-of-fact title and unapologetic gore, likely seen by many as a cheap attempt to ride shock value into a quick box office gold mine.Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 21 Sep. 2024
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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 30 Dec. 2024.
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