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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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Donald Trump, so ignorant of the past and so careless about the future, is a present-tense kind of candidate.Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Was an ancient reptile, for all intents and purposes a 15-million-year-old dinosaur, actually roaming this expanse of creosote scrub, subsisting on beavertail cactus flesh, going about her day ignorant of the weather alerts, the headlines, the untold human tragedies?Outside Online, Outside Online, 23 Oct. 2024
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The second group comprises uneducated individuals who engage in daily labor, working on both their own land and the land of others.PhotoVogue, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2024
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If investors remain uneducated about the importance of self-custody, then any increase in demand will be met with an increase in the supply of paper bitcoin (also known as IOUs).Dave Birnbaum, Forbes, 23 Oct. 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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CDOs are uninformed and rarely empowered to give advice to the MarComm team on efforts that relate to the company’s brand reputation.Doug Melville, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Gordon portrayed those efforts as unrealistic, uninformed and reckless.Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News, 8 Sep. 2024
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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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Both of these insults are based on racist stereotypes (the lazy trope and the unintelligent trope) that have been weaponized against Black people throughout history.Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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According to a study by the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center, 76% of women in Nigeria, 70% in Ghana and 57% in South Africa are financially illiterate.Odiri Oginni, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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In other words, nearly all of Singapore’s secondary school students have sufficient skills for the world of work, while almost three-quarters of South Africa’s youth are functionally illiterate.Jim Yong Kim, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
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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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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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With #100daysofpractice, the star violinist has drawn back the veil for professionals and amateurs alike on a private, untaught part of musical life.David Allen, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
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“Unintellectual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unintellectual. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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