5 examples of philister in sentences

Dr. Faustus seems at first to have settled as a practising physician, and at this period of his life Wagner appears as his famulus; for we never find this Philister among scholars as a companion of the travelling Faustus, although his connection with him was apparently lasting.

Well, you are far more of a Philister and a Conservative than I thought you.

Doubtless there are excuses for such a notion; but it is one against which every wise man must set his face like a flint; and at the risk of being called a "Philister" and a "flunky," take part boldly with respectability and this wicked world, and declare them to be for once utterly in the right.

So borrowing a cap and coat, I looked the student well enough to pass for one of them, though the former article was somewhat of the Philister form.

Here, they have abolished duelling; the greatest friendship prevails among the students, and they have not that contempt for every thing philister, or unconnected with their studies, which prevails in other universities.

5 examples of  philister  in sentences