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UK
/sˈɪvəl/
]
[ US /ˈsɪvəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪvəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others
even if he didn't like them he should have been civil -
applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military
civil authorities -
of or in a condition of social order
civil peoples -
(of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life
the civil calendar
a civil day begins at mean midnight -
of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state
civil disobedience
civil strife
civil branches of government
civil affairs -
of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals
civic pride
civic duties
civil liberty
civil rights
How To Use civil In A Sentence
- By 1100 the civilization of Europe was somewhat stabilized.
- In 2007, a jury let the Fairford Two off after they had broken into an RAF airbase to ground B-52 planes and prevent, they hoped, potential war crimes against Iraqi civilians.
- It's all a lot of fuss and nonsense got up by some pesky civil rights activists, some of whom you can find here at Stand.
- Central Asian desert and grow cotton, which tsarist Russia lost access to when the American south, its supplier, began fighting the American north in the Civil A Conversation with Tom Bissell
- Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
- I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians. As I Please
- Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
- This is due to the then nonexistent mobilization of what is called today the "civil society."
- So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
