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lowbrow Definition

☆ low·brow (-bro̵u′)

noun

a person lacking or considered to lack highly cultivated, intellectual tastes

adjective

of or for a lowbrow

lowbrow Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • taste: This was mostly because I had very lowbrow tastes.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: This was mostly because I had very lowbrow tastes.
lowbrow Quotes

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician; ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an ideaöwhether a good one or a bad one.

—Miller, Henry Valentine