Definitions
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- adjective characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them?
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And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them?
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And his hairy, lowbrowed forbears in Tertiary times can we see ourselves in them?
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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
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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
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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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