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Civilized meaning
Having a highly developed society or culture; belonging to civilization. | Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical. | Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
Synonyms of Civilized
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Some non-civilized people may willingly adapt to civilized behaviour.
Alas, this is starting to look like an exercise in madness at a level of human stupidity seldom witnessed in the history of civilized society.
A sign that Palestinians, removed from the Middle East and allowed to grow and flourish in free societies, can become truly civilized — contributors to society, rather than dangers to it.
Civilized life is largely life lived with strangers.
In the civilized world, solitary confinement is considered a barbaric human rights violation and is only suitable for short term use.
It also makes it feel like a barn in the woods — but a civilized barn.
It’s comforting to think that the terrorist who murdered seven Jews coming out of a Jerusalem synagogue was striking a blow against “the civilized world,” as President Joe Biden asserted.
Most liberal Zionists see themselves closer to “civilized” white Christian Europeans rather than their “primitive” Brown Muslim Arab neighbors.
Pained, you put down your civilized drink.
Seattle is looking to take a small step in rejoining the civilized world by making illegal drugs illegal again.
The hatred, the lies, the brutality, the disgraceful outburst of ancient antisemitism are an embarrassment to all civilized people and nations.
They are just as capable of being educated, civilized, decent, and law-abiding.
This is the antithesis of a civilized and intelligent society.
Those are not legal in other more civilized countries.
To maintain order, liberty and a civilized society, public and private virtue should be encouraged and justice must be administered equally and impartially to all.
But antisemitism here, in L.A.? Surely not — why, antisemitism is uncivilized, and L.A. was a civilized town.
Civilized, democratic and disciplined governments are given no leeway even when operating in the pressure cooker of an existential threat.
However, the Law and its practice have remained one of the foundations of a civilized and progressive society.
Israel will meanwhile do the civilized world a favor by breaking the backs of Iran’s Hezb’allah and also Hamas proxies, and it should be encouraged to get the job done for good.
Netanyahu went out of his way to frame Israel’s plight as civilized people against uncivilized barbarians, which only works if you harbor a supremely racist worldview.