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- noun A sentiment of
hostility towards, ormistrust of,intellectuals and intellectual pursuits.
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Examples
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They maintained orthodox Protestant beliefs, but shed the anti-intellectualism and insularity that had come to characterize fundamentalists in the wake of their post-Scopes withdrawal.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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But I'm afraid that won't have any effect on an unhinged base for whom anti-intellectualism is a virtue.
CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent 2009
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To keep an eye on things that I am wary of: anti-intellectualism, pseudo-science, lying to children, extremism, scriptural literalism, anti-blasphemy laws and the like.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Why Do Atheists Read the Religion Section? Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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To keep an eye on things that I am wary of: anti-intellectualism, pseudo-science, lying to children, extremism, scriptural literalism, anti-blasphemy laws and the like.
Shira Hirschman Weiss: Why Do Atheists Read the Religion Section? Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011
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Gawd, the anti-intellectualism in here is thick tonight.
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Prescriptivism in the strange fiction genres is ideally situated to act as carrier of anti-intellectualism and classism, with advocates of more commercial fiction decreeing complex works “improper” and advocates of more complex fiction decreeing commercial works “improper”, each opponent of “elitist wank” or “populist trash” ironically engendering a counter-response that abjects them as a “pleb” or a “snob”.
There's No Prescribing Prescriptivism Hal Duncan 2009
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Snark: exhibiting the lowest levels of anti-intellectualism or an admirable passion for literature?
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Prescriptivism in the strange fiction genres is ideally situated to act as carrier of anti-intellectualism and classism, with advocates of more commercial fiction decreeing complex works “improper” and advocates of more complex fiction decreeing commercial works “improper”, each opponent of “elitist wank” or “populist trash” ironically engendering a counter-response that abjects them as a “pleb” or a “snob”.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Snark: exhibiting the lowest levels of anti-intellectualism or an admirable passion for literature?
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Richard Hofstadter, an eminent historian who, in the 1960s wrote Anti-intellectualism in American Life, defined anti-intellectualism as “resentment of the life of the mind, and those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition to constantly minimize the value of that life.”
"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance Brian Klaas 2025
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