half-civilized

American  

[haf-siv-uh-lahyzd, hahf-siv-uh-lahyzd] / ˈhæfˈsɪv əˌlaɪzd, ˈhɑfˈsɪv əˌlaɪzd /

adjective

1. somewhat civilized, polite, or self-controlled.

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half-civilized

They travel through what feels very much like a half-civilized stretch of frontier, encountering a motley collection of bandits, farmers, stagecoach drivers and talkative oddballs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2016

The Scholars had more important things to do than attend to the affections of a half-wild, half-civilized girl, left among them by chance.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

Some guns were fired, as a signal, on our departure, on which numbers of the inhabitants assembled on the shore, among them the Saukies and some half-civilized Kikapoo Indians.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian

Here his experience in equipping an expedition, and in managing half-civilized men, further fitted him for his great work in the north land.

From Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades by Chester Milton Sanford

Taylor's researches seem to establish the fact, that in the 17th century this district was inhabited by the Corumbas, a half-civilized race of the Dschaina religion.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer