Of the many banausic day jobs that he held in his post-college years, George couldn’t pick a favorite…. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.mentalfloss.com/trivia/vocab/2007/10/24/banausic-adj/]
He felt contempt for all banausic occupations. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : architecture that was more banausic than inspired. From Dictionary.com.
They used the term banausic for the low-cast, cringing souls involved in the making of things. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
The gainful occupations, or any occupations pursued for gain, were "banausic," which meant that they had an effect opposite to that of cultivation. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
So unromantic, so banausic, so thoroughly unappealing, yet for all that imponderably heroic. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Fry: The Great Stink of 2005] Reference
The Greeks preferred the theoretical, the leisurely, to the busy banausic, or mechanical, life of labor. From Wordnik.com. [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference
Reporters must be honest in online personas, but not blah and banausic « Spreader of Gossip & Vice at 12:16 am, September 29, 2009. From Wordnik.com. [Is transparency the new objectivity? 2 visions of journos on social media » Nieman Journalism Lab] Reference
Perhaps Mr. Mazzocco's inventive use of the English language is the source of the confusion, with his "irriguous" organ and "banausic" muse which go "havocking" about the western world. From Wordnik.com. [Myra, Myron, & Gore] Reference
Provides simple and banausic management tool, to manage virtual drives. From Wordnik.com. [20 Newest Free Software Downloads - Freeware Files.com] Reference
· Provides simple and banausic user management tool, to manage CHAP users. From Wordnik.com. [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference
It says: "Don't allow this banausic mob of Sunday scribblers to take control of the media from you - you who are educated, professional and enlightened. From Wordnik.com. [The Editrix' Roncesvalles] Reference
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