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uncivilised

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Adj.1.unciviliseduncivilised - without civilizing influences; "barbarian invaders"; "barbaric practices"; "a savage people"; "fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient"-Margaret Meade; "wild tribes"
barbarian, barbaric, uncivilized, savage, wild
noncivilised, noncivilized - not having a high state of culture and social development


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If it has taken centuries or thousands of years to improve or modify most of our plants up to their present standard of usefulness to man, we can understand how it is that neither Australia, the Cape of Good Hope, nor any other region inhabited by quite uncivilised man, has afforded us a single plant worth culture.
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All I have learned at foreign courts, and amongst civilised and uncivilised people, is going to be utilised within the next couple of hours.
The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context
Accordingly, the men who were wanted were sought out and found; which was in itself a most uncivilised and irregular way of proceeding.
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