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civilized

[siv-uh-lahyzd] / ˈsɪv əˌlaɪzd /


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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

They settled on House No. 2, which also appeared civilized but in a less unsavory location.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s the civilized thing to do, and the U.S. is a civilized nation.

From The Wall Street Journal

As societies emerged, we began to develop egos, those brittle parts of our selves taxed with negotiating between our primal urges and the constraints of a civilized order.

From The Wall Street Journal

If Imogene could keep it up, I thought, till she got to be civilized, if that ever happened, she could be almost anything she wanted to be in life.

From Literature