Words similar to atavistic

Example sentences for: atavistic

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The do-it-yourself, bootstrapping ethos is admirable, but Master P also represents something more atavistic.
Airline language is similarly atavistic.
When they grow a little older and get serious about becoming employed, the green hair and atavistic piercings disappear.
Evolutionary psychologists explain presidential philandering as an atavistic impulse left over from the early days of the human race.
Nevertheless, hunting continues to have an atavistic hold on many Tuscan men over the age of 50, and it is among this group that the poisoners--probably only a handful of them--are assumed to lurk.