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
Nor had that speculum been merely the half-savage fancy of childhood, the endowment by the young of material things with immaterial potencies.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
The diabolical nature of the plan had sunk deeply into the half-savage heart of the man and found some small grains of genuine manhood there.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
Life is so primitive, so pagan, so strangely heathen and half-savage.
From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Jeremy at one end of the circle sat strumming fitfully upon his latest instrument, violin or Jew's harp, his half-savage music breaking in upon Honorine's ceaseless chatter without prelude or apology.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
