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semicivilized

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sem·i·civ·i·lized  (sm-sv-lzd, sm-)
adj.
Partly civilized.
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Semideveloped, semicolonial, semicivilized, brutal, tribal, and politically unstable are the stereotypes which caused a "virtually axiomatic" notion that "a negative self-perception hovers over the Balkans next to strongly disapproving and disparaging outside perceptions.
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He stopped short of calling Philadelphians semicivilized or insulting their beloved cheesesteaks, but he did wonder about the city's motto.
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And in 1894 an editorial in the New York Medical Record, the Medical Society's official publication, ventured the opinion that "circumcision is a relic of barbarous an semicivilized times, before soap and water and sanitation had been preached.
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