Example sentences for: intellectually

How can you use “intellectually” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Once considered a model of social scientific method and a source of broad insights into the way people live, the discipline had become directionless, intellectually moribund, and hopelessly overspecialized, with departments across the country scaling back or disappearing altogether.

  • The only other intellectually honest approach is to advocate wholesale government regulation, a strategy that most agree would be a spectacular failure (and is a whole 'nother story).

  • To even for an instant try to intellectually justify killing members of one group simply because other members of that group did unspeakable things--whether that group consists of Serbian civilians or imprisoned SS guards--is lazy thinking.

  • The editorial calls the Republican attack on federal judges "intellectually incoherent and constitutionally subversive," maintaining that the nominees opposed by Republicans are actually moderates who advocate judicial restraint--exactly the kind of jurists Republicans should support.

  • Probably because of two key attributes that it shares with certain other doctrines, like belief in the gold standard: It appeals to the prejudices of extremely rich men, and it offers self-esteem to the intellectually insecure.


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