Scrabble?! ANTICULTURAL

Definitions of ANTICULTURAL in various dictionaries:

Anti-intellectualism is hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism commonly expressed as deprecation of education and philosophy, and the dismissal of art, literature, and science as impractical and even contemptible human pursuits. Anti-intellectuals present themselves and are perceived as champions of common folkpopulists against political and academic elitismand tend to see educated people as a status class detached from the concerns of most people, and feel that intellectuals dominate political discourse and control higher education.Totalitarian governments manipulate and apply anti-intellectualism to repress political dissent. During the Spanish Civil War (19361939) and the following right-wing dictatorship (19391975) of General Francisco Franco, the reactionary repression of the White Terror (19361945) was notably anti-intellectual, with most of the 200,000 civilians killed being the Spanish intelligentsia, the politically active teachers and acade