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  • adjective characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes

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Examples

  • Three men came out from under the lowbrowed Tudor arch in the mellow facade of Mandeville College, into the strong evening sunlight of a summer day which seemed as if it would never end; and in that sunlight they saw something that blasted like lightning; well-fitted to be the shock of their lives.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Three men came out from under the lowbrowed Tudor arch in the mellow facade of Mandeville College, into the strong evening sunlight of a summer day which seemed as if it would never end; and in that sunlight they saw something that blasted like lightning; well-fitted to be the shock of their lives.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • Before the broom ever touched the object, he froze, his hand suspended in midair over a long-toothed, lowbrowed, hollow-eyed yellow skull.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • Before the broom ever touched the object, he froze, his hand suspended in midair over a long-toothed, lowbrowed, hollow-eyed yellow skull.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them?

    In the Noon of Science 1969

  • And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them?

    In the Noon of Science 1912

  • And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them?

    In the Noon of Science 1912

  • It never occurs to them that the woman is lacking in intelligence because of her refusal; nor that the man she prefers is a lowbrowed scoundrel.

    Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • How could a lowbrowed viking be expected to understand Boston, much less what was going to be Boston in a thousand years!

    This Giddy Globe Oliver Herford 1899

  • He is lowbrowed, swarthy, ill kept, and wears rings in his ears.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

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