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US
/ˈsɪvəˌɫaɪzd/
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ADJECTIVE
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marked by refinement in taste and manners
cultivated speech
polite society
cultured Bostonians
cultured tastes
a genteel old lady -
having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world
How To Use civilized In A Sentence
- A belief in it is not only not naïve; it is the essential precondition for civilized society, and our best defense against the arbitrary use of power.
- He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
- In an earlier time, we would have said that such people were primitives, uncivilized.
- rising crime in our so-called civilized societies.
- Various authors have indicated that the dehumanization of others by means of ascribing animal attributes to them is a way to legitimize their exploitation and their exclusion from civilized society.
- The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
- They were civilized people who knew when society gets stale. Times, Sunday Times
- They are backward, uncultured, uncivilized, and completely alien to the good norms values and achievements of the present era.
- Tobacco's use in heathenish and healing rituals eventually would be replaced by its use in civilized medicine.
- But one great poet is perhaps enough in any family, even the most civilized.
