Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Exhibiting a coarse, vulgar character.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a mind or spirit animated by no lofty or noble aspirations or thoughts; groveling; unaspiring; cowardly; mean.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having coarse, unrefined, vulgar demeanor.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.
Examples
“Paradise Lost, may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem”
The Huffington Post: John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
“John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," along with some of the most celebrated sonnets, elegies and other written works in the English Language, may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot.”
The Huffington Post: John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
“John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot.”
The Huffington Post: John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
“The name was like a low-minded joke, a cartoon surgery in which a white-coated doctor pulls out a body part and calls it a “lump.””
“At the very least, Assange seems an absolutist about transparency, though not every fact or cable or piece of low-minded conversation has the same value to society.”
The Huffington Post: Phil Bronstein: What's More Transparent, TSA's Scanners or WikiLeaks?
“Much preferable to the low-minded risk, which requires that we believe not only that America is racist, but also that it is resigned to having leaders who routinely say things they can't possibly mean.”
Harold Ickes Confirms That Wright Is Key Topic In Discussions With Super-Delegates
“Or in which the low-minded cynics are proved right?”
A decisive, patriotic Canadian, able to deal with tough economic times - Inkless Wells - Macleans.ca
“Norman Spinrad praises Infoquake as a high-speed, high-spirited tale of high-powered and low-minded capitalist skullduggery, corporate and media warfare, and virtual reality manipulation.”
“It was called the great society and we've spent trillions in trying to rehabilitate blacks to get away from their generally gutter, low-brow, low-minded, culture and thinking.”
“ANOTHER WEEK, ANOTHER RETREAT -- THIS TIME A prudent one, the decision to maintain a normal trade relationship with China -- and another demonstration of the Clinton administration's "" pragmatic neo-Wilsonian '' foreign policy, defined in this space last week (specifically, with regard to Haiti) as the pursuit of high-minded goals for low-minded reasons.”
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