low-minded

American  

[loh-min-did] / ˈloʊˈmɪn dɪd /

adjective

1. having or showing a coarse or vulgar taste or interests.

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low-minded British  

adjective

1. having a vulgar or crude mind and character

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Other Word Forms

• low-mindedly adverb
• low-mindedness noun
• lowmindedly adverb

Etymology

Origin of low-minded

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Schemer, climber, manipulator, wielder of high-minded covers for low-minded exploitation, Morf doesn’t do much actual writing.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2019

‘Because the Taliban themselves are low-minded, they think every woman and girl is just like them,’ the medical student says.

From Newsweek • Dec. 12, 2012

It undermines authority and nourishes a low-minded culture of winks and smirks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Probably the most high-minded man when engaged in a death-grapple fights in much the same way as the most low-minded.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert

He was a man of coarse fibre, ambitious and domineering, cold-hearted and perfidious, with a cynical contempt—such as low-minded people are apt to call "smart"—for the higher human feelings.

From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by Fiske, John