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You can use this word when referring to a person or a movement that is hostile or suspicious of intellectualism, reason or science. For example, "The anti-intellectual movement of the early 20th century influenced public education policies."
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anti-intellectual
adjective
Indifferent or hostile to cultural or intellectual ideas
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The crowd, basically anti-intellectual, screamed encouragement.
Craig-Martin is anything but anti-intellectual.
"Music is anti-intellectual," he said.
The McCain campaign is reveling in its anti-intellectual tenor.
The appointment also appealed to his anti-intellectual streak.
But the anti-intellectual Presidency is fast expiring.
"Our people can least afford to be anti-intellectual".
He does not appear to be aggressively anti-intellectual.
Opera is anti-poetical, anti-novelistic, anti-intellectual.
He became avowedly anti-intellectual and disdainful of academics.
More anti-intellectual than censorship is its apathetic absence.
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