half-civilized
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Certainly," replied Eric; "it is like building railroads in uncultivated or half-civilized countries, before roads have made possible the interchange of agricultural and manufactured products.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
The converted Goth or the renegade Persian, the half-civilized mountaineer from Isauria, the Copt and Syrian and Armenian were all welcomed in the army or civil service, if only they had ability.
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
Diabolo!" muttered the two Zambos, who had witnessed the young man's hazardous progress with that mute admiration and sympathy which the exhibition of bodily strength and activity is apt to excite, especially amongst half-civilized men—"Diabolo!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
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