Friday, September 28, 2012

Philistine

noun: a person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artist values

The philistine never even glanced at the rare violin in his collection but instead kept an eye on its value and sold it at a profit

Synonyms: boor, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, lout, materialist, vulgarian

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