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

We know nothing of them, or of the other half-civilized nations that occupied the central parts of Europe in those days, except what their inveterate and perpetual enemies have thought fit to tell us.

From Alexander the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

I fancied that great tracts of wood only existed in new lands like America, or half-civilized places.

From Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands by Butterworth, Hezekiah

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