uncivilized
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It ran a commentary saying that street stalls were "unhygienic and uncivilised".
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2023
The veterans' body that organises the popular annual get-togethers condemned the "reported uncivilised behaviour", but said some sort of problems were to be expected at events that draw huge crowds of onlookers.
From Reuters • May 10, 2022
Kenyan Swahili on the other hand is more colloquial - regarded by some as sloppy and uncivilised, and is often the subject of amusement between the neighbours:
From BBC • May 6, 2021
At this point, things speed up a bit, but not to an uncivilised pace: happily, Glover is assisted in his endeavours by nine other foreign editors.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2016
Anthropology tells us and archaeology implies that our uncivilised ancestors could be red in tooth and claw; psychoanalysis seeks to persuade us that the savage in all of us lurks not far below the skin.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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