civilized
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This is a civilized world we live in now.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
You would respect the movie more if it stuck with its depraved indifference to civilized behavior, rather than attempting a death-bed conversion to decency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Those are traits that help define a psychopath, someone who lives among us but doesn’t have the empathy and ethics necessary to behave in a civilized, or even safe, fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
In any other part of civilized society, rifling through someone else’s diary is considered an outrageous invasion of privacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Too civilized, they said, and downright unnatural, too, since no town the size of Blythe had any business existing out in the Mojave Desert.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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