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adj. - Relating to or belonging to or resembling primitive man.

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Usage examples (4)
  • On the desk in front of me are two MP3 players, a digital camera and a positively Neanderthalian calculator.
  • But of course CalFire and USFS won't allow that because their paper-pushing Neanderthalian throw-back officials claim they know better.
  • Sir, your hands-off approach, while nobly intended and perhaps yet some day applicable to the reality of an improved version of our nation, enabled the national humiliation...
  • Can’t wait to see her defeated: the average Neanderthalian GOP Senator is about as useful as Lincoln when it counts. pseudonymous in nc says:
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