civilizedly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They became, not civilly, but civilizedly dead."
- "[…]; people looked at me half-civilizedly;"
- "Yes, I expect to reach Devil’s Lake some time towards the last of this month, when the thermometers have learned to conduct themselves somewhat more civilizedly."
- "How much superior to the inhabitants of Jackson, Miss., who fled from their city (1898) because three cases of yellow fever were discovered, were the inhabitants of Munich, Germany, who, in 1874, with 260 deaths from Cholera Asiatica in one day and 14,000 deaths during the ten weeks of epidemic, did not even close the schools, theaters, hotels, in fact continued on living as civilizedly and bravely as in normal times?"
- "So we will stick to the proprieties of our times, and civilizedly robe you for your bridal night."
- "We may live civilizedly in the city, wear ties and read statistics, but we all carry our animal spirits within us."
Etymology
From civilized + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more civilizedly (comparative)
most civilizedly (superlative)