Meanings
adjectiveTV-phobic (comparative more TV-phobic, superlative most TV-phobic)
comparative more TV-phobic · superlative most TV-phobic
- Having a dislike of television.
It helped that there were plenty of celebrities — from Billy Graham to Tiny Tim to Johnny Carson to Leonard Nimoy to TV-phobic John Wayne […]
2004, Joe Garner, Richard Pryor, Made You Laugh!1 more example
Even the short-lived phenomenon of Twin Peaks, which attracted otherwise TV-phobic intellectuals to the television set when it debuted in 1990 […]
2008, Gary Richard Edgerton, Jeffrey P Jones, The Essential HBO Reader
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