cultured
Speech parts
1. cultured - Adjective
2. cultured - Verb
4. cultured - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Culture
Under culture; cultivated.
Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
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Examples
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.
Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general sense and the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reason lies not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
[Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs-I was a man before I was a king.
I'm turned on by guys who are cultured. That'll keep me intrigued. They don't have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.