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UK
/sɪvˈɪlɪti/
]
[ US /səˈvɪɫəti/ ]
[ US /səˈvɪɫəti/ ]
NOUN
- formal or perfunctory politeness
- the act of showing regard for others
How To Use civility In A Sentence
- We will improve self-governance among urban residents and build new-type and well-managed communities featuring civility and harmony.
- Mr. Collins repeated his apologies in quitting the room, and was assured with unwearying civility that they were perfectly needless. Pride and Prejudice
- The result is families under siege, war in the streets, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit.
- Most bothersome is during this week of Kanye, Serena and Wilson with virtually every news site asking are we rude/have we lost our civility, is that people from the stature of James Carville to presumably educated people writing comments, are ranting, raving and name calling. Carville takes aim at latest tell-all on Bush
- The lack of civility is very disturbing," said Terrence C. Donilon, the archdiocesan spokesman. Catholic Blogs Aim To Purge Dissenters
- It is the fact that civility requires us to show respect for people we do not know that invests it with a strong moral quality.
- It's a small, slow act of civility in a brutish world. Times, Sunday Times
- All about us one sees the flourishing of a vigorous new illiteracy, widely distributed and attached to muscular incivility and crime.
- This spectrum of ‘legitimized’ violence continues through the acts of the eco-terrorists and animal liberationists to widespread rudeness, crudeness and incivility.
- We could make it a self-fulfilling prophecy if we assume they have civility and regard them all and treat them all as one.