troglodytic

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Within Italy, Matera came to be seen as just another out-of-the-way town in the impoverished south; among foreigners, it had a reputation as a picturesque troglodytic locale.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 20, 2015

Peter and Agatha, painted by troglodytic monks escaping religious persecution in the Byzantine Empire.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2015

The cost of raising their profile outweighed the benefits of exposing their troglodytic views.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2013

Soon, Eggs begins to question what he is doing in the sewers with a pack of adorably troglodytic scavengers who burble and squeak in a crude, Gremlin-like patois, while he speaks the King’s English.

From Washington Post

The number of these troglodytic dwelling places on the Verde is very large; indeed the mesas may be said to be fairly honeycombed with subterranean habitations.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter