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- noun Anti-
intellectual attitudes and positions.
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Examples
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He initiated anti environmental, anti scientific bureauracies and propagandists that continute to brainwash our public; his voodoo, semi Maoist, antiintellectualism remains virulent in our body politic today.
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Chicago was the center of anything other than trade conventions and the slot-machine industry, it was the center of "Americanism" as defined by Colonel McCormick, and as used by McCormick, this signified for Liebling isolationism, chauvinism, antiintellectualism, and red-baiting.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Chicago's campuses tend to evolve into enclaves anyway, as their inhabitants turn inward in a protective reaction against Chicago's pride in its buffoonery and its elevation of antiintellectualism to a cultural style.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Chicago's campuses tend to evolve into enclaves anyway, as their inhabitants turn inward in a protective reaction against Chicago's pride in its buffoonery and its elevation of antiintellectualism to a cultural style.
Chicago Reader 2010
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This antiintellectualism may well be problematic but it does raise a warning to any critic tempted to impose a psychoanalytic master-code.
Dialogic 2010
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