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/ənˈsɪvəɫaɪzd/
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ADJECTIVE
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without civilizing influences
fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient
a savage people
barbarian invaders
wild tribes
barbaric practices
How To Use uncivilized In A Sentence
- He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
- In an earlier time, we would have said that such people were primitives, uncivilized.
- The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
- They are backward, uncultured, uncivilized, and completely alien to the good norms values and achievements of the present era.
- In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
- I'm far more offended by minstrelizing robots with no plausible connection to hip hop by any imaginative stretch and the use of mudflap a derogatory term involving the assumption of a dirty and uncivilized penis than a series of black monsters set in Africa of all places. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
- They believe foreigners deem it "uncivilised" and are worried it will cast the city in an unflattering light when Expo 2010 begins.
- Apparently bloggers really are considered the barbarians at the gates - unrefined, undisciplined and uncivilized.
- For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world.
- Both believe that the Bible can do ignorant, sensual savages no good; both believe that nothing but compulsatory power can restrain uncivilized barbarians from polygamy, inebriety, and other sinful practices. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject