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Definition of Lowbrows
1. lowbrow [n] - See also: lowbrow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lowbrows
Literary usage of Lowbrows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"Historians of social and intellectual history are unduly snobbish when they look
down their scholarly noses on the lowbrows who study war. ..."
2. The Soul of John Brown by Stephen Graham (1920)
"What the lowbrows of the South are teaching the Negro he will be found to have
learned, and as Shylock said about revenge—it will go hard but he betters the ..."
3. Little Theater Classics by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1920)
"... great re-creations of his lighter plays) of all but "low-brows," and the "lowbrows"
too, once entrapped, will enjoy its primitive drollery. ..."
4. The American Pageant Revisited: Recollections of a Stanford Historian by Thomas A. Bailey (1982)
"What it seemed to be saying was, "Look, you lowbrows. See how smart I am. I made
Phi Beta Kappa." One of the worst teachers I ever had held forth in the ..."
5. Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens by Archaeological Institute of America (1892)
"17 Cf. the so-called Ariadne head (FR.-W., No. 1490). Many statues of Dionysos
have lowbrows, but the same is true of heads of Apollo: cf. the Belvedere ..."
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