Peter T. King

The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong.

American Politician

John Burnside

The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

Scottish Writer

David Harsanyi

Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood - and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte.

American Journalist

Michael Eisner

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

American Businessman

Jack Schwartz

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

Scientist

Joanne Kelly

I'm a troglodyte. I think that's the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

Canadian Actress

Jair Bolsonaro

Brazilian Politician

Troglodyte refers to ancient humans, not to contemporary people who prefer a hermit lifestyle.

Historical humans

The term is historical and should be used primarily in a historical or anthropological context.

Archaic usage

Using troglodyte to describe someone can be offensive, implying strong resistance to change or progress.

Cultural insult

In modern slang, it's a metaphor for someone out of touch, not to be taken literally.

Colloquial metaphor

Be cautious not to seem superior if describing someone as a troglodyte, as it implies judgment.

Avoid condescension

Troglodyte specifies animals that live in burrows or caves, used in biology or wildlife discussions.

Biological context

It's a scientific term, so best used in academic or knowledgeable circles about animal behavior.

Technical term

 or each moral community is a matrix, a consensual hallucination. And so if you're within the blue matrix, everything's completely compelling that the other side -- they're troglodytes, they're racists, they're the worst people in the world, and you have all the facts to back that up. But somebody in the next house from yours is living in a different moral matrix.

Can a divided America...

 relative pan troglodytes the name we give him means cave dweller he doesn't he lives in rainforests in Savannah's it's just that we're always thinking of this guy is lagging behind us evolutionarily or somehow uncannily creeping up on us and in some cases he

Troglodyte

Historical humans

Archaic usage

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