adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a civilized society
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A civilized society should treat its elderly members well.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Surely the place you work in has a more civilized atmosphere?
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To make the country even more civilized the railways were embarking on building great hotels by their stations for the first time.
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Not that they needed a fire, it was just that a fire was more civilized .
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In Vienna the pace of life was more civilized .
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If reparation were more consistently pursued we should have a much more civilized and morally acceptable penal system than the present one.
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Inside, a more civilized and settled atmosphere would be hard to find.
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The prophets they portray were at once more civilized than their masters and more closely in touch with the divine will.
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The artist is being at once more primitive as well as more civilized , than his contemporaries.
■ NOUN
society
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To do otherwise would have been tantamount to branding yourself an obscene, inhuman monster, an outcast from civilized society .
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In civilized societies social considerations further intensified the value attached to ivory, as is the case of other materials.
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Beaujolais should not be a civilized society lady; it is the one-night-stand of wines.
world
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But it did not bring an end to the speculation and confusion which was rending the civilized world .
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In a civilized world , hours of work should not be continually excessive.
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In a civilized world that course is controlled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Care for the disabled, old, and sick is essential in a civilized society.
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I tried talking to her in a civilized manner, but she refused to listen.
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The Yosemite hotels are too civilized for Stacey's taste; she prefers sleeping in a tent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even very conservative commentators can regard the conditions within some prisons as morally intolerable to a civilized community.
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In their presence, the audience could feel its civilized surface annulled and replaced by a consoling sense of unity with nature.
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In Vienna the pace of life was more civilized .
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Not that they needed a fire, it was just that a fire was more civilized .
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The only problem was how to set them loose in a manner not too blatantly contravening all the rules of civilized warfare.
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To do otherwise would have been tantamount to branding yourself an obscene, inhuman monster, an outcast from civilized society.