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banausic

utilitarian, practical; routine or mechanical;
pertaining to earning a living (often used disparagingly)


    [ "beh-NAW-sick" ]

Sightings:

That vulgar business of earning a living

What happened to Britain's polys?

Job for a people person

Where did soap come from?
(explore for an Iron Age farm)

Who needs inventiveness when you've got slaves? (explore the URL for more antiquities discussions)
-- or women? (explore for more "western civ" readings)

Music is so -- low-brow

Nothing is too utilitarian for Parliament

Montana's wild huckleberry ... beer?

Hermes -- the god of the nouveaux riches

Norman Mailer's word choices

Fixing bad pix for the web

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