civilized
Example Sentences
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“Ottoman elites internalized and even embraced European ideas about their own Empire. These elites aspired to become Westernized, which they saw as civilized and modern.”
And maybe, one day, a thousand years in the future when we all lived on Mars and could shuttle back and forth like civilized people, I’d have the guts to text them first.
From Literature
“I leave for five minutes, and you resort to shouting? Please remember to keep this conversation civilized.”
From Literature
“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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
