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• The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.From the entry condition
• Then we all just shake hands, sit down somewhere cosy like and have a nice civilized chat.2014, Charlie Higson, The Fear. From the entry jam one's hype
• Bandits, raiders, and pirates have plagued civilized peoples around the globe for millennia.2013 Winter, Robert J. Bunker, "Defeating Violent Nonstate Actors," Strategic Studies Institute—U.S. Army War College (retrieved 24 May…. From the entry nonstate actor
• A Romanophile, the Greek historian Polybius intended his History to explain Rome's dominance over the civilized world.2012, Jon E. Lewis, Rome: The Autobiography. From the entry Romanophile
• This enables noise when you want and a civilized ride when you don't!2011 July 5, Cam Benty, Chevy LS Engine Buildups: Covers LS1 through LS9 Models, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry catback
• Enter the civilized, anytime, anywhere solution to "peemergencies": TravelJohn Disposable Urinal.2003 December 14, Jacky Runice, “Give a gift with travelers in mind”, in Daily Herald. From the entry peemergency
• They are using the newsletters to lecture people on how to be civilized.2002 September 2, fossilfreak [Jan Yarnot], “Dead Dog”, in Mossyrocks News, GeoCities, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2002. From the entry 6-2-1 rule
• Outside the dogs crowded me, their whiskery faces eager and struggling to keep themselves civilized.2002, Sonya Hartnett, Thurday's Child, page 168. From the entry somedog
• A spaceman from Mars could easily pick out the most civilized nations here.1972, Prochnow, Herbert V. (Herbert Victor), 1897-1998, 1000 stories and illustrations for all occasions, →OCLC. From the entry spaceman
• Nations had gone down because of vainglory, when moderation might have civilized and saved them.1962, Arthur Hailey, “Chapter Eleven: The White House”, in In High Places (fiction). From the entry vainglory
• The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined.1935 July 2, W. E. Farbstein, “Marginal Notes”, in Washington Herald, volume XIII, number 219, Washington, D.C.: American Newspapers…. From the entry cheerful
• A civilized hotel is a little urban globule floating like scum on a rustic pool.1926, C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren, London: Trubner & Co, page 19. From the entry globule
• Things began to take form—he was regaining the perspective of civilized man.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 45. From the entry red mist
• He sees in Conan a red-handed, rough-footed barbarian who came out of the north to plunder a civilized land.2014, Robert E. Howard, The Phoenix on the Sword, →ISBN. From the entry red-handed
• Liara: Do not be fooled by these civilized surroundings.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria. From the entry fool
• We decided to blow the roof off the situation in order to bring about a more civilized market.2001, The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, page 7. From the entry blow the roof off
• For a barbecue house, Bubba's is quite civilized.1999, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A., page 126. From the entry nonbarbecued
• You should still get a good tip without the autograt if your customers are civilized people, and your work is good!1998, hilary gorman, “Opinions on tipping situation”, in phl.food (Usenet). From the entry autograt
• The conversation was totally civilized and low keyed.1980 April 12, Nancy Walker, “Parents and Friends of Gays”, in Gay Community News, page 12. From the entry low-keyed
• An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.1977 May 25, George Lucas, Star Wars, spoken by Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness). From the entry lightsaber
• The Puyumas, a small, rather civilized tribe, live together with native Chinese in many villages around the city of Ping Tung.1967, Chen Kang Chai, Taiwan Aborigines: A Genetic Study of Tribal Variations, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry Ping Tung
• We ought to send you to England to be civilized.1964, Cecilie Leslie, The Rope Bridge, page 28. From the entry jungli
• Such is not the usage of civilized warfare.1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill…. From the entry double
• We live in a civilized society!2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Special Districts”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), Warner…. From the entry scrupulous
• The notion of ‘police’ – that is, rational administration – was seen as a historical force which could bring civilized improvement to societies.2002, Colin Jones, The Greta Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 218. From the entry police
• What do you do when you talk a mentch (civilized, decent human being), ask politely for something you deserve and don't get it.2002, Givon Zirkind, Tales of a Recalcitrant Husband and His Journeys, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry mentch
• We may be clothed, citified, and civilized, but we carry deep within us the genetic patterns of behavior that served our ancestor, the "killer ape."1992 July 17, Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 239. From the entry citify
• For the Baslers no town exists but their own: only Basel is "civilized," and north of the river Birs the land of the barbarians begins.1989, C. G. Jung, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, →ISBN. From the entry Basler
• Still and all, after weighing the pluses and minuses of Smooth's offer, he came, to the only possible conclusion for a civilized man—no soap.1983 March, Bruce Jay Friedman, “Detroit Abe”, in Esquire. From the entry no soap
• If civilized life had covered over the ancient verities, Dumuzi learns in his tragic death that the sheepfold is still there to reclaim him.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry sheepfold
• In both civilized society as well as primitive communities coprophagous aphrodisiacs were in common use, urine, faeces of human beings and animals, fluids, intestinal organs.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 186. From the entry coprophagous
• The Christian movement, forced by adversity to abandon its first home in Jerusalem, reached far afield and swept over all of the civilized world.1924, First Parish in Concord (Concord, Mass.)., Gail Cleland, Loren Benjamin Macdonald, Trinitarian Congregational Church (Concord…. From the entry afield
• The theory of the civilized Greek of Sicily may be set beside the similar theory of the savage Arunta of Central Australia.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 44. From the entry groping
• There is charge and answer-a regular debate, and the crowd, which forms a good old civilized circle, laughs at the shots given.1918, Letters by Victor Murdock to the Folks at Home, Eagle Press. From the entry pushee
• From that day these outrages have never ceased, until now they have reached a pitch which makes us the opprobrium of the civilized world.1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lodge 341, Vermissa”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry opprobrium
• Who would go back to the stifling, wicked cities of civilized man when the mighty reaches of the great jungle offered peace and liberty?1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 119. From the entry stifling
• That patient animal is found wherever civilized man is found, and wherever the soil is scratched the Missouri mule will be found working.1910, Journeymen Horseshoers' International Union of the United States and Canada (publisher), International Horseshoers' Monthly…. From the entry Missouri mule
• "The village of Huaxi, Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province was once a small village, but now it has become a well-off village of the civilized nation, Fuyu Village.2020, Dong RiNuanYang, “Keeping the Bottom Line”, in Story of a Pretty Teacher, volume 16, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Huaxi
• The pope praised Cardinal Newman . . . for “his insights into the relationship between faith and reason, into the vital place of revealed religion in a civilized society.”2010 September 19, Rachel Donadio, John F. Burns, “Pope Ends British Trip With Beatification”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Aug 2015. From the entry revealed religion

Meaning of civilized

1. adjective Having a highly developed society or culture; belonging to civilization.
2. adjective Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical.
3. adjective Marked by refinement in taste and manners.

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How do you use civilized in a sentence?

Civilized is used as an adjective. For example: “The condition of man can be classified as civilized or uncivilized.”

What is a short sentence with civilized?

“We live in a civilized society!”

What does civilized mean?

Civilized means having a highly developed society or culture; belonging to civilization.