ba|nau|sic

ba|nau|sic
ba|nau|sic «buh N sihk», adjective.
1. mechanical: »

... alleged that the teaching of music as a manual art was banausic and degrading (George Grote).

2. practical: »

Chief among its many qualities is the author's concern to ask…certain banausic but highly basic questions about the Greeks (Sunday Times).

3. materialistic: »

Banausic, he called them, banausic, A villainous banausic couple (Stevie Smith).

[< Greek banausikós of or for artisans < bánausos artisan]

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