Nowadays it has the same meaning, but it is also associated with materialistic and superficial attitudes.

The film beautifully exposes the materialistic attitude of people.

Not only disappointed, but also they will grow up with materialistic attitudes and values.

Changes in our materialistic attitude are necessary to establish such a moral life.

As they become a very popular, Jon's new materialistic attitude irritates Sharon.

The result, she said, is the emergence in India of "a feudal being with a materialistic attitude."

"We know about the materialistic attitude behind those S.U.V.'s," he said.

He believed that these forces must be explained as a necessary consequence of basic physical principles, favoring a materialistic attitude toward biology.

You see it in that materialistic, status-seeking attitude.

Fellow partner in the firm Skyrocket despised him for his miserly, materialistic attitude.