as in barbarian
a man with crude manners and habits and outmoded attitudes
married a caveman who spends all his free time swigging beer and watching sports on TV
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Recent Examples of caveman
The following story might irritate male supremacists and cavemen everywhere.
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David Whitley, The Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2024
The caveman bit allows the characters free rein to get extremely silly, and their disgust for Squidward’s clarinet-playing is immortal.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
Now it's known as the bulletproof diet, paleo, caveman, Atkins, or the ketogenic diet.
—Outside Online, 17 July 2024
The research is at odds with the image of Neanderthals, ancient human relatives who went extinct around 40,000 years ago, as brutish cavemen.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 June 2024
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David Whitley, The Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2024
The caveman bit allows the characters free rein to get extremely silly, and their disgust for Squidward’s clarinet-playing is immortal.
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2024
Now it's known as the bulletproof diet, paleo, caveman, Atkins, or the ketogenic diet.
—Outside Online, 17 July 2024
The research is at odds with the image of Neanderthals, ancient human relatives who went extinct around 40,000 years ago, as brutish cavemen.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 June 2024
See All Example Sentences for caveman
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caveman
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In a fable by Phaedrus, also written in the first century A.D., a barbarian is threatening the troops of the military leader, Pompey the Great.—
Tom Sapsford,
The Conversation,
24 Feb. 2025
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Whatever the reason, barbarians likely used the spoons either to snort powdered substances, or to measure out a quantity to place into drinks like beer, or into pipes to be smoked.—
Joshua Rapp Learn,
Discover Magazine,
30 Jan. 2025
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Cutting-edge visual effects create a world of talking photorealistic animals that might as well be a nature documentary, and attention is paid to livening up the humor, with Billy Eichner’s funny, overdramatic meerkat Timon showing up everybody, including Beyoncé. 9.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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The farm is home to a small flock of sheep, chickens, pigs, cows, and other barnyard animals.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
21 Mar. 2025
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Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as a kid with her mom and spending too much time binging Doctor Who. fossils Neanderthals evolution anthropology paleontology 1 free article left Want More?—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
13 Mar. 2025
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More of Florida’s contemporary GOP lawmakers seem prone to cheer on Neanderthal talking points than challenge them.—
Scott Maxwell,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2025
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Related Stories Fire rages in the forest one night when the village’s de facto guardian Maxim (Willem Dafoe), and his troupe of gun-toting child troglodytes trained in his image, hunt the Ochi (humans blame them for the disappearance of farm animals).—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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In a cold open that could have been co-written by a Moms for Liberty chapter, Tulsa King lets its charming troglodyte anti(ish)-hero Dwight Manfredi take a few swings at the state of modern education in the form of the cartoonish progressive day school to which his grandchildren are to be sent.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
13 Oct. 2024
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“Caveman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caveman. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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