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

There is, I am told, a considerable influx of visitors of a special sort; they wear khaki and lead the troglodytic life.

From War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)