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- noun Plural form of
semisavage .
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Examples
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When he'd lived in Gromheort, that had seemed plenty to distinguish between his own people and the bumpkins and semisavages of Unkerlant.
Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002
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But when he was in the midst of fighting a war against those bumpkins and semisavages, and when they seldom got a chance to shave because they spent so much time in the field, having a beard didn't seem enough differentiation.
Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002
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Information is conveyed, not noise; but at the same time, it didn't seem to me like information that a bunch of semisavages could handle.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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The Americans long ago brought over Africans as slaves; then, as the result of a war of words and war of fact, suddenly released them all, and, at one fell move, in obedience to the hysterical cries of their people, gave these ignorant semisavages and slaves the same political rights as themselves.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous
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