Synonym: civilize, cultivate, educate, school, train. Similar words: civilisation, civilian, civilize, civility, civilized, incivility, uncivilized, civilization. Meaning: v. 1. train to be discriminative in taste or judgment 2. raise from a barbaric to a civilized state.
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1. A civilised leader must eschew violence.
2. Let's discuss this like civilised people.
3. They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.
4. Haas was quite pleasant, very civilised.
5. China is a highly civilised country.
6. Terrorism is totally unacceptable in a civilised world.
7. I wrote to my ex-wife. She was very civilised about it.
8. Nor, if we are in civilised cast of mind, because we wish to become drunk.
9. Envy was a civilised emotion, attendant upon some degree of security and the possession of things strictly unnecessary to survival.
10. It exists in every civilised society so that Governments, the rich and the powerful can not abuse their position.
11. But pure liberal education exists to civilise its beneficiaries rather than to fit them for employment.
12. Man was determined to civilise himself and his brothers, even if heads had to roll!
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13. Thousands of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families and raised by whites in a government policy to "civilise" them.
14. And the mission to civilise that was the colonial kind of project is now a mission to civilise France's own population.
15. An eye for an eye is no way to run a civilised justice system.
16. Perhaps they could sit down and discuss things in a civilised fashion.
17. London is confident and alive, resonating with all the qualities of a civilised city.
18. We adapt and suppress our needs in order to behave in a civilised fashion.
19. The general problem for anarchists has been that a majority of most civilised populations will balk at attacks on the innocent.
20. His evil and bestial nature stands directly opposed to our just and civilised culture.
21. It appeared to Nizan as the only realistic method of conducting human affairs in a civilised manner.
22. Piggy wanted a sign from the adult world as he thought they were civilised even though they were at war.
23. It has often been noted that while barbarians fight with hatchets[sentencedict.com], civilised men fight with gossip.
24. The idea of the boy Scout movement soon spread and was imitated throughout the civilised world.
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