0 not suitable for a well developed, peaceful society where people are treated fairly:
He described the punishment as "barbaric and uncivilized".
1 (of a society or country) without what is thought to be a highly developed culture and way of life, or (of a person) rude and not showing care for others:
uncivilized behavior
Perhaps, then, what historians should be examining is not so much the growing repression of ' uncivilized ' emotions, as the different conventions in existence at different points in time.
The spell-casting monsters are generally treated as primitive or unsophisticated clerics or clerics of uncivilized or inhuman deities.
They will manipulate civilized rules for uncivilized ends.
The people who do this are showing their own culture, so why do they tell us that we are uncivilized?
However, they are also defined as backward, violent, and uncivilized.
She dwells in the wounds of the world, deserts, ruined houses, poverty, tatters, hunger, thirst, quarrels, mourning of children, in wild and other uncivilized, dangerous places.
However, it's hard to imagine that a modern government would fall back and try to use such uncivilized garbage as justification for non-recognition of aboriginal title.
In his view nature has become some topological grid dividing the civilized and the uncivilized, which has led to the rejection of the very idea of nature.
