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 caveman bit allows the characters free rein to get extremely silly, and their disgust for Squidward’s clarinet-playing is immortal.
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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
Berry played Sharon Stone, Fred's secretary who refuses to close her legs to married cavemen.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 27 May 2024
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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
Berry played Sharon Stone, Fred's secretary who refuses to close her legs to married cavemen.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 27 May 2024
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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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The animals are native to eastern North America and didn’t first appear in the Pacific Northwest until the 1970s.—
Alice Jones Webb,
Outdoor Life,
13 Mar. 2025
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Experts say the animals in the video were common wombats, the only one of three species of the Australian marsupial which is not threatened or endangered.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN,
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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Published: Feb 3, 2025 Claire Cameron (Photo: Claire Cameron) Claire Cameron’s novels include The Last Neanderthal and The Bear.—
Claire Cameron,
Outside Online,
3 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 17 Mar. 2025.
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