How to Use lowbrow in a Sentence

lowbrow

adjective
  • The movie's humor is clearly meant for a lowbrow audience.
  • What is high art and what is lowbrow?
    — Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But the lofty rhetoric of some podcasts makes the sometimes lowbrow nature of the ads feel at odds with the show.
    — Erin Geiger Smith, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Our crazy mix of highbrow and lowbrow cultures and traditions.
    — Ronnie Polaneczky, Philly.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • To many critics, that sounds like a high-tech form of lowbrow gambling, a new way to bring the vices of Vegas right to your phone.
    — Max Raskin, Washington Post, 28 June 2026
  • Here’s a look at three companies that are helping sheds to shed their lowbrow reputation.
    — Katy McLaughlin, WSJ, 1 May 2018
  • Early on, conservatives dismissed her work as lowbrow woo-woo.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 5 July 2019
  • Butter cheese sounds delicious in a vaguely lowbrow way, like Cheese Whiz.
    — Posie Harwood, Bon Appetit, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Granny panties had officially infiltrated the culture in ways both highbrow and lowbrow.
    — Shira Feder, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • The lowbrow art movement celebrates art from street culture that is more popular and accessible.
    — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • This self-awareness is especially welcome when Efron appears in lowbrow comedies.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2017
  • On that metric, Facebook slop actually succeeds, but in the most obvious, lowbrow way.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
  • Evans said he wasn’t thwarted by the brand’s adoption among Robinson and other political figures because of their lowbrow tastes.
    — Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • So, either there’s one in New York magazine that’s despicable and lowbrow and highbrow.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 20 Aug. 2018
  • Frank Campagna, owner of Kettle Art Gallery, said some of the gallery’s art could be considered lowbrow.
    — Elizabeth Myong, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a highbrow/lowbrow theme to the menu, steered with aplomb by Executive Chef Martha Wiggins.
    — Paul Oswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The lowbrow Netflix offering was conceived as a sitcom, then reengineered as a feature, which explains the rapid-fire humor, if not the heart.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike other wellness trends, though, this meal is absurdly simple and decidedly lowbrow.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 July 2023
  • Expect unlikely connections to metaphysics and theology, and a big book tent covering the high and lowbrow.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The university is becoming the state's leader in hypocrisy and lowbrow entertainment.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The oddly lovable mutants Groening first flung at us 30 years ago ushered lowbrow satirical art into the mainstream.
    — John Ortved, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The oddly lovable mutants Groening first flung at us 30 years ago ushered lowbrow satirical art into the mainstream.
    — John Ortved, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The genre began as a form of entertainment that appealed to both society’s poor and its elite, even though it was considered trashy, lowbrow, taboo, and a kind of yellow journalism.
    — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2019
  • One of the things that pleased me about how these cars were used, many of the owners of this car put them on display—granted in environments that were very lowbrow—but donated the proceeds to charities.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 16 Mar. 2017
  • Colliau has even added to the menu a Long Island Iced Tea ($10), maybe the most lowbrow cocktail ever.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 20 June 2018
  • The wonderfully sticky, melty American cheese is a nice, gleefully lowbrow textural touch.
    — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
  • In short, Manliness is not the lowbrow male supremacy that bubbles up from the manosphere into the pages of The American Mind.
    — Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Leave it to Tyler, the Creator to incorporate a somewhat lowbrow pairing into an otherwise dapper look.
    — Rachel Hahn, Vogue, 4 June 2018
  • Still, to reduce this complex and original comedy to its most lowbrow moments (true, the basketball scene is horrifying) is to miss out on its oceans of brilliant writing and mid-aughts charm.
    — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 16 July 2024
  • The distinction between highbrow and lowbrow celebrities was once totally uncrossable, but the Bling Ring was obsessed with these second-tier stars.
    — Jessica Goldstein, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018

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