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[ US /ənˈsɪvəɫ/ ]
[ UK /ʌnsˈɪvə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking civility or good manners
    want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue

How To Use uncivil In A Sentence

  • He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions. Erema
  • In an earlier time, we would have said that such people were primitives, uncivilized.
  • The first he would have described as a natural system - like a primitive state of nature, an uncivilized, anarchic world where the most powerful tyrannize the rest.
  • They are backward, uncultured, uncivilized, and completely alien to the good norms values and achievements of the present era.
  • In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
  • The discourtesies extended to the collector by the newspapers were not only uncivil but also irrelevant.
  • Sorry, but if Wilson's outburst was "uncivil," what is lying to the American people called? Resolution criticizing Wilson passes, on mostly partisan vote
  • I'm far more offended by minstrelizing robots with no plausible connection to hip hop by any imaginative stretch and the use of mudflap a derogatory term involving the assumption of a dirty and uncivilized penis than a series of black monsters set in Africa of all places. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
  • They believe foreigners deem it "uncivilised" and are worried it will cast the city in an unflattering light when Expo 2010 begins.
  • Our chiaus had a warrant from the pacha to take up asses for our men, and accordingly did so at this place over night; but next morning the Arabians lay in ambush in the way, and took back their asses, neither of our chiauses daring to give them one uncivil word. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
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