civilized

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“She was such a civilized, cultural person,” Stasevska says of her grandmother, adding that she taught her grandkids everything she knew about her home country.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

And he declared the area to be an "innovative and highly civilized city representing the tourism culture of the country".

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

Any civilized society must cultivate and maintain an intellectual class.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2025

For Sigmund Freud religion is a personal projection in which primitive impulses crack the crust of civilized manners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

Despite his first, the study of English literature seemed in retrospect an absorbing parlor game, and reading books and having opinions about them, the desirable adjunct to a civilized existence.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan