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What does uncivilized mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word uncivilized? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
  2. Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
  3. Used to describe behaviours deemed savage or inappropriate.
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The Indians were thought of as uncivilized, barbaric beings, but much to the immigrants' surprise, they were mostly wrong.
Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized.
Please don't be as uncivilized, thoughtless, and cruel as the monsters who committed these senseless acts.
To abolitionists, capital punishment is equally uncivilized and deserving of a definitive ruling of its unconstitutionality.
The Orient is associated with an uncivilized nature, the Westerner with a proprietary consumption of it.

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