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

Apparently they were under the impression that we had taken to troglodytic habits and required none.

From With Our Army in Palestine by Bluett, Antony