Civilized in a sentence as an adjective

You know, that in the civilized world we use meters and kilograms?

I just think that, like everything else in the world, if we're civilized, we'll allow the discussion.

What does help people lead tolerant, civilized lives and be at peace with other people who may have differing opinions?

Guantanamo Bay is one of the most disgusting institutions in the "civilized world".

Given the way this has escalated I'm expecting it to have engulfed the entire civilized world by the end of the week.

On a number of occasions lately, I've seen people post comments that are totally unacceptable in civilized discourse.

Uh, the Nietzsche quote has a slightly different connotation when you give it a wider context:When seeking work for the sake of the pay, almost all men are alike at present in civilized countries.

Wow, did Amtrak knock up that guy's teenage sister or what?As someone who has taken train/plane/bus/car between NYC and DC the last couple of years, I can say without a doubt that Amtrak is the most civilized way to get between those two places.

And I want the terrorists to be attacked relentlessly where they live, so that they have to hide in caves and ride on goats, while Americans and other people in developed countries get to lead civilized, advanced lives in the Twenty-First Century.

The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves civilized.

Civilized definitions

adjective

having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"

See also: civilised

adjective

marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

See also: civilised cultivated cultured genteel polite