| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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Philistine also philistine |
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| NOUN: | An unrefined, rude person: barbarian, boor, chuff, churl, vulgarian, yahoo. See GOOD. | | ADJECTIVE: | philistine(Philistine)Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, churlish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar. See COURTESY, SMOOTH.
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