uncivilized

Example Sentences

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Some may find that idea revolting, a belief often, if unknowingly, steeped in colonialism and the notion that eating insects is "uncivilized."

From Salon • May 30, 2024

Why do they act so uncivilized in the luggage claim area?

From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2023

“What do they say, ‘anything else would be uncivilized?’

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2022

The only way to get a word in was literally to speak over her, which on television doesn’t work well and makes the one interrupting look uncivilized.

From Slate • Apr. 29, 2020

I remember watching her eat with her hands and feeling wholly uncivilized with my fork.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates