Semisavage

Word SEMISAVAGE
Character 10
Hyphenation sem i sav age sem i sav age
Pronunciations N/A

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The word "semisavage" in example sentences

The aristocratic families in Granada, his hometown, had never fully welcomed the man they regarded as a “semisavage Indian” into their exclusive circle. ❋ David Talbot (2010)

He explained that alcohol is “a loathsome excretion of a living organism”; that it will make a civilized young man successively “become semicivilized, semisavage, savage, and, at last, below the brute”; that “nearly two-thirds of all the money in circulation in America in the course of a year” passed through the grasping hands of the liquor trust. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

These barbaric societies have their place and give vigor; but if unreduced later, as in many unsettled portions of this country, a semisavage state of society results. ❋ G. Stanley Hall (1885)

That there was but one better quality which pertained to her semisavage disposition -- the faculty of physical fortitude and self-sacrifice, and another, though not always an attribute of the noble savage -- Truth. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

Jessica solves her problem by acquiring a huge, semisavage, red-eyed mastiff dog, which she keeps tied up and straining at the leash in a kennel between her own and her husband’s twin beds. ❋ Hilary Spurling (2010)

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