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  • adjective Alternative spelling of troglodytic.

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Examples

  • So far, the only visible support you evince is from trogloditic cave-dwellers devoted to moving society backward as far as possible (hey, let's bring back slavery) or, as they describe themselves, troglobytes (trilobytic "little people").

    I Really Always Thought It Was Trite, But... Randy Smith 2005

  • So far, the only visible support you evince is from trogloditic cave-dwellers devoted to moving society backward as far as possible (hey, let's bring back slavery) or, as they describe themselves, troglobytes (trilobytic "little people").

    Archive 2005-10-09 Randy Smith 2005

  • He and his eighteenth-century, trogloditic Boston were suddenly cut apart, —separated forever, —in act if not in sentiment, by the opening of the Boston and Albany Railroad; the appearance of the first Cunard steamers in the bay; and the telegraphic messages which carried from Baltimore to Washington the news that Henry Clay and James K. Polk were nominated for the Presidency.

    Quincy (1838–1848) 1918

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