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“It is pleasant here, but there is no bench. Would it be perfectly uncivilized of us to sit upon the ground?”

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“Who on earth is this dirty, uncouth, and uncivilized creature?” she demanded.

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Masked men grabbing anyone and everyone in the fashion of paramilitary squads from countries we deem uncivilized.

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Attempting to construe the uncivilized and norms-busting battle that Democrats found themselves in, Garcia likened the politics of Trump's second term to a "bar fight."

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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."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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