How to Use uncivilized in a Sentence

uncivilized

adjective

• He was awakened at an uncivilized hour.
• They believe that capital punishment is uncivilized.
• The opposite of uncivilized isn’t being a different flavor of the same thing.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 6 Feb. 2020
• There was a perception that an innocent woman was trapped in a system that was not only unjust, but uncivilized.
  — Kristen Gelineau, The Seattle Times, 19 May 2017
• In short, Congolese men and women are portrayed as uncivilized and barbaric.
  — Nina Wilén, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2017
• Hollywood has painted our state as a wild, uncivilized frontier filled with dangers and adventure.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• Some women consider breast-feeding uncivilized and unattractive.
  — Karen Herzog, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• Some party leaders had bought into white Southerners' thesis that Black people were uncivilized.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 25 Sep. 2020
• Others suggest the residents were forced to move by Soviet leaders, who deemed the caves uncivilized and wanted to source the rock as building material.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 22 May 2017
• Does America think that Black people or people of color are uncivilized savages or naturally unjust?
  — Ben Morse and Jill Martin, CNN, 26 Aug. 2020
• In fictional imaginings of a lethal pandemic, a visceral panic often sweeps through frightened crowds and leads to decidedly uncivilized behavior.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
• At the time the rule was put into place, the NBA was viewed as an uncivilized place, with skirmishes detracting from what has since moved to a more free-flowing, aesthetically pleasing game.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 June 2018
• Colonial technology came for his kingdom, regardless, and the forces of modernity ended up demonizing those who didn’t embrace technology as backward and uncivilized.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2026
• This sort of rhetoric only adds to the hysterical nature of contemporary politics, giving respectability to uncivilized behavior.
  — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
• And though its most populous resort town, South Padre Island, is known for its thumping spring break bacchanalia, the majority of this unattached spit of land remains uncivilized in the other sense of the word.
  — Jordan Breal, New York Times, 6 June 2017
• The prevalence of bloviating, uncivilized screamers makes Charles’s self-effacing reserve especially refreshing.
  — Fay Vincent, WSJ, 10 June 2018
• Rather than a barrier between north and south, Arab and African, civilized and uncivilized, the Sahara emerges as a varied landscape deeply enmeshed in trading, religious, and other networks that stretch beyond its vast expanse.
  — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
• Bigots and eugenicists pushed junk science claiming genetic differences between ethnic groups, and arguing that whites were biologically superior, myths of the wild man—uncivilized and beast-like—found new purpose in racist pseudo-science.
  — Colin Dickey, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2020
• White artists typically characterized Native Americans as violent and uncivilized, but Lewis showed more respect for their civilization.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian, 25 July 2018
• Alinsky's nasty tactics at dividing society have been formally taught for years by community organizers, providing a map for personal harm and uncivilized disruption by resorting to practically any means to gain power over others.
  — Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2020
• But the show repeatedly undercuts that point of view by halfway reinforcing the age-old American assumption that crime is born of poor individual choices among an uncivilized populace, not of poverty, desperation, and preservation, both self and communal.
  — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 27 June 2026