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Meanings of uncivilized in English

Without civilizing influences.

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        1
        Among uncivilized nations, the passions do, in general, exceed all rational bounds.
        Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
        2
        Wanton slaying of wild things is unknown among the uncivilized Red Indians.
        The Shagganappi
        3
        Among uncivilized nations there is but one profession honourable, that of arms.
        Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V
        4
        This is a powerful uncivilized strip of country that we've got into.
        The Talking Leaves: An Indian Story
        5
        We'll be an uncivilized pair of terrors-thatis what we will be.
        A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls
        6
        All for a chance to dump the kids in an uncivilized wilderness.
        The Long Earth
        7
        Think how barbarous, how savage, how utterly uncivilized, is such an instinct!
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        8
        Or maybe they're just reverting to their normal uncivilized state, too.
        Darkness on the edge of town
        9
        Why must you leave your homeland to wander in dangerous and uncivilized places?
        A river in the sky
        10
        It was difficult to be uncivilized in the company of so many clocks.
        Quicksilver
        11
        Splashing gallons of fire onto infantry, even enemy infantry, was uncivilized, Ares thought.
        Book Two: Descent
        12
        And among the uncivilized people coldness and cruelty go often together.
        The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before...
        13
        But in one respect Edward was ill-fitted to deal with an uncivilized people.
        The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 / (From Barbaro...
        14
        I did not say one was civilized and the other uncivilized.
        The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns
        15
        Alice Springs is isolated, but it is not an uncivilized place.
        Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
        16
        A test on an uncivilized island would bring reason to the doughtiest lover.
        Nedra
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