Cultivated in a sentence as an adjective

These kinds of shutdowns, and the reasons given, are doing immense harm to that cultivated image.

We cultivated a very public culture of being incredibly hard to get in.

And that includes becoming cultivated in a range of areas.

They cultivated people who "had to do, paid or not" and "whose doings were likely to be highly interesting and important".

As a latin-cultivated person I can tell you: extrovert is THE correct spelling.

It's like everyone is playing a private success-seeking game in their head, never really showing their cards, but presenting a cultivated image.

They've cultivated these pirates for years by keeping their products priced so high, and by ignoring widespread piracy from students and amateurs.

In his salad days, Rockefeller cultivated excellent relationships with bankers, who would stop him on the streets of Cleveland and ask him if he needed money.

Hadfield has cultivated an enormous, captivated audience for what is arguably routine space travel.

I like the example they give, which comes from Coase's paper: "To illustrate this, Coase used the example of a cattle farmers herd straying onto the cultivated fields of a neighboring grain farmer.

However, when cultivated, that empathy makes for phenomenal developers.

But from an evolutionist perspective, what reason is there for a random plant to contain just the right mix of chemicals to produce the most beneficial effects in humans?There is none, of course - except where the plant has been cultivated, that is, subjected to artificial selection.

Almost all news organizations have abandoned reporting in favor of editorial; have cultivated reader opinion in place of responsibility; and have traded ethical standards for misdirection and whatever consensus defines as forgivable.

""For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.

Cultivated definitions

adjective

(of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; "cultivated land"

adjective

no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use; "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries"

adjective

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

See also: civilized civilised cultured genteel polite