uncivilized

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Civilization is a relative arbitrary term; and the ancestors whom we are pleased to term uncivilized, may have possessed as high a degree of mental culture as ourselves, though it unquestionably differed in kind.

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  1. adjective Not civilized; barbarous.

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  • Being uncivilized, they could not be expected to follow the practice of civilized warfare. —  George Washington
  • He looked uncivilized, as if the same fire in her had seared away the thin veneer of manners he wore in public, revealing what she had sensed all along was at the core of him—something dangerous, untamed, raw. —  TAMI HOAG
  • I understand that they are fierce, uncivilized, and crude. —  The Color of Her Panties
  • Before evil Europeans invaded the place, where did the natives practice cannibalism, and where, even today, are the natives barbaric, uncivilized, and uninterested in becoming educated? a. Wall Street —  Yannone
  • They are not ashamed to recruit Samson in their pursuit of their modern war-a war where only the "uncivilized" bleed. —  Palestine Chronicle - Headlines
 

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/ənˈsɪvɪlaɪzd/
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