civilized

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“She was such a civilized, cultural person,” Stasevska says of her grandmother, adding that she taught her grandkids everything she knew about her home country.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

And he declared the area to be an "innovative and highly civilized city representing the tourism culture of the country".

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Any civilized society must cultivate and maintain an intellectual class.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

For Sigmund Freud religion is a personal projection in which primitive impulses crack the crust of civilized manners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

The education of any civilized gentleman in those days used to go through three stages, page, squire, knight, and at any rate the Wart had been through the first two of these.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White