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Someone who dwells in a cave, lives in solitude.

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  • For the first time, opening a fashion magazine didn't make me feel like a cloddish troglodyte who needed fixing.
  • He chose the word troglodyte with deliberation; it comes from a Greek word meaning cave dweller.
  • It is technology utterly out of functional scale in turn pointing a finger with the label troglodyte if you even suggest alternatives.
  • The difference between a gentleman and a "troglodyte" isn't that the former respects women and the latter doesn't.
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