Citations:troglodytism

Noun: "the practice of living in caves or cavelike environments"

 * 1935 — Sven Loven, Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies, University of Alabama Press (2010), ISBN 9780817356378, page 121:
 * Troglodytism did not extend over the West Indies generally. On many of the Lesser Antilles and Virgin Islands caves are entirely lacking, while in other places they were not suitable for dwellings.
 * 1964 — Bernard Rudofsky, Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Archietecture, University of New Mexico Press (1987), ISBN 9780826310040, page 15:
 * Troglodytism does not necessarily imply a low cultural level. The picture of the caveman dragging his mate by her hair is a cartoonist's cliché, betraying nostalgia for bygone days, rather than a portrait of the kind of people who prefer to live below ground.
 * 1968 — W. B. Fisher, The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 1, Cambridge University Press (2004), ISBN 0521069351, page 420:
 * When natural conditions are favourable, a good deal of troglodytism is encountered: an ancient Iranian expedient against the winter cold in treeless areas.
 * 2005 — Margaret Bidwell & Robin Bidwell, Morocco: The Traveller's Companion, Tauris Parke Paperbacks (2005), ISBN 9781845111076, page 125:
 * The fortress city of Taza is a fine example of troglodytism.
 * 2009 — Fodor's Spain 2009 (ed. Caroline Trefler), Fodor's Travel (2009), ISBN 9781400007042, page 726:
 * The restaurant, also subterranean, serves regional dishes. Pros: Novelty of troglodytism, ideal temperatures, silence.
 * 2009 — Robert Twigger, Dr Ragab's Universal Language, Picador (2010), ISBN 9780330427470, pages 85-86:
 * as if the guts of the house were being sucked out to leave space for yet more tiny flats, I came to a stunning conclusion: building underground! If only troglodytism became socially acceptable the housing crisis of Britain could be averted.
 * 2010 — Martin Garrett, The Loire: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press (2010), ISBN 9780199768387, page xxiii:
 * Troglodytism demonstrates for Arthur Young the dryness of the climate. "In England rheumatism would be the chief inhabitant." But even in France at the time caves were not always regard as desirable homes.

Noun: "(pejorative) the state or quality of being considered course, ignorant, uncultured, or unprogressive"

 * 1989 — P. J. O'Rourke, "A Call For A New McCarthyism", The American Spectator, Vol. 22, No. 7, July 1989:
 * Our era is supposed to be the 1950s all over again. Indeed, we are experiencing anew many of the pleasures and benefits of that excellent decade: a salubrious prudery, a sensible avariciousness, a healthy dose of social conformity, a much-needed narrowing of minds, and a return to common-sense American political troglodytism.
 * 2002 — Patrice Higonnet, Paris: Capital of the World (trans. Arthur Goldhammer), Harvard University Press (2005), ISBN 0674008871, page 431:
 * Rightest opinions were not necessarily signs of aesthetic troglodytism:
 * 2003 — Henry I. Miller, "The Corrosive Effects of Politicized Regulation of Science and Technology", in Politicizing Science: The Alchemy of Policymaking (ed. Michael Gough), Hoover Press (2003), ISBN 0817939326, page 53:
 * After becoming the vice president's aide, Simon in his public utterances revealed no diminution of his troglodytism.