troglodytic

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2013

His book is a complicated American classic, sometimes ahead of its time on racial matters, sometimes troglodytic.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 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

In fact he thought he was addressing Bickley and playing off on him a troglodytic practical joke.

From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Haggard, Henry Rider