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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Example Sentences

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

Catharine was as reluctant to part from Henry, her favorite son, as he was himself averse to exchange the pleasures of the Louvre and Saint Germain for the crown of an unruly and half-civilized kingdom.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

But an influx of priests and monks tended still more to the promotion of German habits; a stream of them poured incessantly from the west into the half-civilized country.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

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 Maximilian, Alexander Philipp