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uncivilizedness

/uhn-siv-uh-lahyzd/US // ʌnˈsɪv əˌlaɪzd //UK // (ʌnˈsɪvɪˌlaɪzd) //

不文明现象,不文明行为,不文明,不文明的行为

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not civilized or cultured; barbarous.

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Examples

  • PREA was designed to fight back against the uncivilized nightmare we let flourish inside our prison walls.

  • While we watch fires ablaze in the Middle East and judge other peoples as uncivilized, have we not lost civilization here?

  • I took her out for gin and tried to get her to smoke pot, but she thought all of that was uncivilized.

  • It may be said that among uncivilized and barefoot people the great toe is usually very mobile.

  • Is an uncivilized state of society the cause of good poetry, or only an attendant circumstance?

  • There are no uncivilized savages in this province except the Appaches, of whom I have spoken largely.

  • But what we tolerate in uncivilized lands, even where we are ostensibly rulers, we will not suffer in our own.

  • Uncivilized nations often entertain the absurd notion that certain individuals can command the rain whenever they please.