savage
adjective
fierce, ferocious, or cruel; untamed.
half-savage
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a word derived from
savage.
Example Sentences
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Hero Francis Herries rake, skeptic, violent-tempered, takes his family from the comforts of Doncaster to a rude, half-savage life in his ancestral home at Rosthwaite in the Cumberland lake country.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his gratitude to Heaven and his deliverers, Penn could have hugged that grotesque, half-savage creature to his heart.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
By the time he was twenty-five, he was the acknowledged king of the southern pampas, with a thousand hard-riding, half-savage horsemen obeying his orders.
From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson
Helen stamped her foot with impotent rage, as she felt how justly she had been appraised by this half-savage prince; but she could find no words in reply.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
He stopped for a moment on the sill to look at his wife, grinning at her in a half-savage, half-idiotic way.
From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones
