Meanings
plural cinemaphobes
- One who dislikes movies.
Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more.
1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-22 more examples
He, the dentist, had sat beside his cinemaphobe pal and as each foot of reel unfolded itself, piling banality upon trash, they had stood the abuse from the screen quite a while, because he insisted to his friend, who seemed to be losing his mind, that what I endorsed would turn out to be brilliant in the end.
1956, Elliot Paul, Film flam, page 79Although Diller was from television, he was neither a true New Yorker nor a cinemaphobe—only a media czar in the making, eager for any opportunity, whether in television or film, that would help him achieve his goal.
2015, Bernard F. Dick, Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood, →ISBN
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