Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Exhibiting a coarse, vulgar character.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a mind or spirit animated by no lofty or noble aspirations or thoughts; groveling; unaspiring; cowardly; mean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having coarse, unrefined, vulgar demeanor.

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Examples

  • John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot."

    John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

  • 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."

    John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

  • 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."

    John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

  • Paradise Lost, may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem

    John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

  • 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."

    John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem John Lundberg 2010

  • 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.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 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.

    Phil Bronstein: What's More Transparent, TSA's Scanners or WikiLeaks? Phil Bronstein 2010

  • 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.

    Phil Bronstein: What's More Transparent, TSA's Scanners or WikiLeaks? Phil Bronstein 2010

  • 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.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

  • 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.”

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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