| In Papua, the missionaries saw the laid-back, no-rule, non-authoritarian lifestyle of Papuans as a sign of their primitiveness. |
| The primitiveness of the inventors of such imaginations, and the imaginations themselves, discard completely their verisimilitude. |
| At the outset of the journey he spoke in belittling terms of Italy, of its primitiveness, its poverty. |
| But as is invariably the case in Turkey, close inspection revealed the primitiveness and roughness. |
| He is a very likable man, and there is little about his primitiveness that is repulsive. |
| The word has come to suggest a certain vague primitiveness, instinct unleavened by experience, a false prophet. |
