primitively
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Not only was she primitively engaging with staging and character development, but she forged her directing instincts by recruiting neighbors and her two younger siblings to perform in her “films.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
The society is post-industrial, but only primitively digital—a lot of dot-matrix printers and monochrome displays.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018
I try to work out whether his media charm offensive is motivated by selfless patriotic duty, or opportunistic self-interest, but the answer turns out to be more primitively powerful than either: his pride.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2018
He winds through the primitively dark streets of New York City, 1973, trembling in the rain-speckled windows, the lurid lights of downtown nightclubs and the seedy arcades of Times Square blinking and blurry.
From The Verge ● Feb. 12, 2016
Adunata.—Monocyclica with dorsal cup primitively confined to the patina and an occasional single anal; tegmen solid; portions of the proximal brachials and their ambulacrals tend to be rigidly incorporated in the theca.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
