a person who does not like or understand art, literature, music, etc. In artistic matters he's a complete philistine. She dismissed critics of her work as philistines.
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philistine attitudes
NAmE//ˈfɪləstiˌnɪzəm//
noun [uncountable] the philistinism of the tabloid pressSee philistine in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: philistine