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
Apparently bloggers really are considered the barbarians at the gates - unrefined, undisciplined and uncivilized.
For all its wacky irreverence, it is also a rather touching story of moral decay in an uncivilized world.
Both believe that the Bible can do ignorant, sensual savages no good; both believe that nothing but compulsatory power can restrain uncivilized barbarians from polygamy, inebriety, and other sinful practices. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject
But we abolished this uncivilized custom in conclave, and thenceforth sat our meals out to the end. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
I believe that certain aspects of other cultures are primitive and uncivilized.
And I also think that those of us who think this way should stand up for those who are being called intolerant and uncivil, and who are being asked to apologize, and defend their ethical right to say what they are saying.
He depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
In addition to the above, it is obvious to many that students will also engage in uncivil behaviors in and out of the classroom.
To his face she gave him none, -- an uncivil proceeding in 1714; but Mrs Jane being allowedly an eccentric character, no one expected her to conform to conventional rules on all occasions. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne)
Rudeness is defined as: lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse; of untaught manners; uncivil; ignorant; lacking chasteness or elegance. Ed and Deb Shapiro: How Does A Waitress Deal With Rude People?
Lucan put it well, ‘most uncivil civil war’: as if the pun involved in the title touches on anxieties about intrafamilial violence. Archive 2007-01-01
With the advent of a universalist, Christian monotheism, the notion was added that all these outsiders were by definition not only uncivilized but ungodly.
He'd been short and uncivil with her, but it was difficult enough coping with his own problems at the moment, let alone hers. WALL GAMES
Other than yet another demonstration of our ongoing dive into uncivil crassness, these antiboy T-shirts are an example of how we continually devalue our men.
Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
She wasn't even nice to him, in fact she was uncivil.
From my impartial position, I understand why Christians are offended by Dawkins, but I don't see anything he does as impinging academic freedom or being uncivil. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
The uncivilized guest chewed with his mouth open.
‘I will be frank with you,’ she declared, her expression and posture rather uncivil.
These artefacts are correctives to the usual view of these people as completely uncivilized.
If the boys sometimes cross their limit, the whole blame goes these uncultured/uncivilised boys, and the poor girl is just the victim.
It was the most uncivil exchange I've ever heard on a talk radio show between a host and a regular guest.
Various forms of generalised insult and uncivil ad hominem attack have too often been the norm, and the opportunity for factual and disciplined analysis of where Lomborg's book may be wrong is largely forgone.
Surely, human life could not have started in those uncivilized places.
'decadence' which has come to its perfection in uncivilised and overcivilised Russia; and the woman whom Ibsen studied as his model was actually half-Russian. Figures of Several Centuries
Filson depicted the Kentucky frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by wild beasts and uncivilized savages.
She does not view the tribal people as uncivilized or primitive, but merely very different from the rest of the world.
His was a wild, uncivilized kind of handsomeness, she thought, like that of a noble, untamed creature of the forest, changed by enchantment into a man and thrust into modern clothes. The Port of Adventure
It was as if they couldn't see him, couldn't perceive his curiosity, his loneliness, and his uncivilized spirit. THE BROKEN GOD
The French don't like the Irish; they think they're wild, barbaric, and terribly uncivilized.
It is about giving assent, support and legitimacy at a transnational level to a most uncivilised field of research.
This all led to uncivilised evening drinks at The Local, before wobbling home in an uncertain manner.
Please don't be as uncivilized, thoughtless, and cruel as the monsters who committed these senseless acts.
Isn't it clear to the world by now, that the U.S. represents a different mindset than much of the uncivilized world?
Traditional African masquerade, dating back to the era before emancipation, used rags, paint, and spears to portray an image of a miserable, uncivilised past.
_Fellatio_ and _cunnilinctus_, while they are not strictly methods of coitus, in so far as they do not involve the penetration of the penis into the vagina, are very widespread as preliminaries, or as vicarious forms of coitus, alike among civilized and uncivilized peoples. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
he treats his former wife uncivilly
They were described to be living a 'savage life' wild, uncivilized, 'uncultured', Uprooting the Demon of Racism
I wanted to simply disappear; I must have sounded so graceless and uncivilized.
There are many public sites of discussion in which people don't conduct themselves in the same - uncivil, exacerbating, insulting, abusive etc. - ways as are common in the blogosphere.
Well, of course it couldn't be the uncivilized place that some people say it is.
It amused Kemp that old man Colter had sent his daughter away for refinement and culture, then brought her back to one of the roughest, most uncivilized places in the country.
In their wild and alien nature, these animals were the embodiment of all that was uncivilized and, therefore, of barbarian irrationality and evil.
Consider the development of an Honor Code and Honor Board at your school that defines violations as including uncivil behavior.
One week of that I spent visiting my Mum "up north" as we Canadians like to say -- it basically translates as "more northerly, colder and uncivilized than where I am currently located... suckaz", but other than that I don't have much of an excuse. Very Short Fiction -- Happily Ever After
Provided, y'know, it's not "unprofessional" or "uncivil" -- the parameters of which she will, of course, define for the proles. Free Exercise
As schooling became somewhat more standardized over time, these prescriptivist grammarians became almost Biblical in proportion, even to the point that during the Colonial period the aboriginals were discouraged from speaking their own language because it was uncouth, uncivilized, imperfect, and perhaps most importantly, non-Christian.
You are absolutely the most rude, unsociable, uncivilized person I know!
Western European “explorers” annihilated millions of indigenous people in the “New World” under the pretext that they practiced anthropophagy and were better off dead or enslaved than they were living in their natural “uncivilized” state. Flesh, flesh everywhere, Nor any morsel to eat...
The campaign has abounded in mutual accusations of uncivilised behaviour.
Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declareth all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate. Richard Geldard: In This Other America
‘That is the kind of thinking that would be compatible with a very uncivilized world,’ he added.
With the advent of Civic Morality Promotion Day (yes, there is such a thing) in China, various websites have featured Internet surveys and discussion forums against uncivil behavior on the Internet.
Grizelda, it is now more then fitte time, that thou shouldst taste the fruite of thy long admired patience, and that they who have thought me cruell, harsh and uncivill natured, should at length observe, that I have done nothing basely, or unadvisedly. The Decameron
This is the final straw, and, much out of character, I launch into a tirade against these annoying, impolite, uncivil people.
After personally attacking me for allegedly being "uncivil," Honig then asserted that the Congressman's "position is on all fours with the Open Internet policy endorsed by the labor unions, all the minority intergovernmental organizations and virtually every national civil rights organization except ColorofChange. James Rucker: A Key, Unknown Player in Civil Rights Groups' Attack on the Open Internet
I suspect that most rational New Zealanders would argue that this is not ethical development at all, but barbaric and uncivilised, and that these beliefs have no place with a State broadcaster.
All in all men are often insensitive and behave in an uncivilized manner.
This is to counter the dumb who don't think they are dumb, and are at the same time crude, uncivilised and unreasonable.
It will pay us, I think, to stop configuring education as a battle of the geniuses against the uncivilized.
Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised.
want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue
Many American middle-class women, for example, expressed their revulsion at what they saw as the dirty and uncivilized nature of Irish women.
He characterized the action as ‘brazen, arrogant, uncivilized, and insensitive.’
A couple of months ago when Deborah Howell was "deluged" with "uncivilized" comments about her failure to correct a blatant misrepresentation, the Washington Post ombudsman and others had a shrieking fit of the vapors and spent days on the fainting couch mumbling incoherently about the rude insults they had to endure. Hullabaloo
Please don't be as uncivilized, thoughtless, and cruel as the monsters who committed these senseless acts.
The Orient is associated with an uncivilized nature, the Westerner with a proprietary consumption of it.
Poor Victoriano flew into a violent rage, and after calling the alcalde several very uncivil names, he pulled the soga from his bags, flung it at his head, and told him to take it home and use it for his own neck. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
Understand that spitting is an uncivilized act, prohibit the exercise.
By counterposing the countryside to the city in this manner, the ‘uncivilized’ nature of the former is again contrasted with the ‘civilized’ nature of the latter.
Last week, it emerged that even those trusted with getting children safely across roads outside school are bearing the brunt of increased aggression and uncivilised road behaviour by some motorists.
Cole shows up, being as uncivil to Robert as always.
But was it fair to call Africa barbarous and uncivilized, and to say that the slave traders were doing no harm by removing people from that continent?
She may be unladylike, but she certainly was not uncivilized!
The uncivilised vampires are described somewhat differently, their walk being "catlike" and "on the edge of shifting into a crouch" (TW18). Twilight Lexicon » Appearance
She had been abominably uncivil to him, and she would not be surprised if he took umbrage.
With a feather stuck in his hair and his deep blue eyes, Danlo did in fact look uncivilized and not a little wild. THE BROKEN GOD
Walking down the town's narrow central street, they created their own, uncivil procession. GRACED LAND
This quiet Englishman who never used an uncivil phrase, never sought high office, but won the affection of everyone he met, and attained the highest office in Rotary.
The author contributed a viewpoint based on personal experience without adopting the indignant and uncivil tone that exists elsewhere in this particular discussion - thank you!
To abolitionists, capital punishment is equally uncivilized and deserving of a definitive ruling of its unconstitutionality.
Instead we happily divert to supposed ‘safe’ spots, there to be uncivilly mugged or traffic-maimed.
The youths were described as uncivilised barbarians who savagely attacked innocent victims.
To those who have rowed only clumsy country-boats, with their awkward row-locks and wretched oars, slimy, dirty, and leaking, trailing behind tags and streamers of pond-weed, or who have only experimented with that most uncivilized style of digging up the water called paddling, the real pleasure of rowing is unknown. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861
But I think it is a necessary confrontation, a final break with the wild and uncivilized world from which Enkidu derives.
Technically, they were not supposed to drink on duty, but he felt it was uncivil to be in a bar and not buy any of its chief commodity. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
Our common historical portrait of him consists mostly of negative assertions that he was irascible, uncivil, and secretive.
He did not think that Kiril was below him, that he was barbaric and uncivilized.
They are not just men sacrificed to expediency, they are not men too civilised for an uncivilised world.
In the aftermath of the American elections the chattering classes in Britain have portrayed the moral majority in America as the peculiar aberration of a raw, uncivilised culture.
Only let us not deceive ourselves as to this point in future, Germany is the dangerous nation because it is the uncivilizable nation, because its castles, its fields, and its barracks have remained the inexhausted, and perhaps the inexhaustible, reservoirs of human ferocity. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915
Though they defend themselves with a bravery, skill, and devotion that has absolutely no comparison, proving on every occasion their great superiority in dauntlessness and address, no advantages of daring and prowess can overcome the evil effects of their defensive policy, and the probability is that in a few years more the noblest race of uncivilized men, will become utterly extinct. Life in the Rocky Mountains
Regrettably, the counterpoint to that dominance is a tendency to relapse into aggressive and uncivilised patterns of behaviour from time to time.
I put the linen napkin on my lap to show I am not poorly mannered and uncivil.
But, you know, I don't think we're serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people say - use words that they shouldn't be using.
He claimed the men provoked him with threats and uncivil behaviour and he had acted in a flash of uncontrollable violence, but the jury decided that he coolly planned to kill them.
Faculty allege that Jones has used "uncivil" language with faculty and staff, once sending an e-mail to faculty with the heading "Enough ... Bowie State faculty: Life under provost 'untenable'
However, not to part uncivilly, and be as good as my word, I brought ben Nanse's bottle, and gave him a cawker at the shop counter; and, after taking a thimbleful to myself, to drink a good journey to him, I bade him take care of his feet, as the causeway was frozen, and saw the auld flunkie safely over the strand with The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
Many of his contemporaries shared his surprise and dismay and assumed that this apparent triumph of an uncivilised eastern nation over the best fighting machine in Europe was but a flash in the pan.
Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
First most of them were imported from among the interior peoples, untouched by the Swahili culture, peoples contemptuously referred to as shenzi or uncivilized barbarians by the coastal peoples.
Their "uncivil" behavior prompted a number of so-called free speech advocates to start propounding about the need for civility. John W. Whitehead: Forcing Politicians to Listen: Dissent, Rebellion and All-Around Hell-Raising
However, human rights monitors point out that the action of the Coalition forces and their presence in the country is posited on ending ‘uncivilised’ behaviour and installing a system of fairness and justice.
And we have done them in a way where we are trying to point kids in the right direction, teenagers especially, who are so uncivil, so angry, so unruly, so maybe this is a way.
It was as if they couldn't see him, couldn't perceive his curiosity, his loneliness, and his uncivilized spirit. THE BROKEN GOD
We will once more stand against the uncivilised cowards who gnaw at the soul of our democracies.
It defines what it means to be civilised in uncivilised times, testifies to the healing properties of a sense of the ridiculous and hints that inner cheer can face down physical infirmity.
Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
There must be no more division of the world into civilized and uncivilized, developed and underdeveloped.
To quote the foreword in one of Luther's books, "his gorged paunch is puffed up with uncivil pride. Janey Canuck in the West
He is stern and severe -- with fixed principles of _duty_ which _nothing_ on earth will make him change; very _clever_ I do _not_ think him, and his mind is an uncivilised one; his education has been neglected; politics and military concerns are the only things he takes great interest in; the arts and all softer occupations he is insensible to, but he is sincere, I am certain, _sincere_ even in his most despotic acts, from a sense that that _is_ the _only_ way to govern; he is not, I am sure, aware of the dreadful cases of individual misery which he so often causes, for I can see by various instances that he is kept in utter ignorance of The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
To rush through a meal is thought to be uncivilized behavior.
How should you like it if any cross-grained brute should call you Mr M the moment he chose to be uncivil?
She may be unladylike, but she certainly was not uncivilized!
We always picnic in the room so it looks as if we're provisioned for an excursion into the uncivilized wilderness.
Yet this lack of acquisitiveness, this disregard for hoarding, has earned indigenous communities sobriquets like ‘uncivilized’ or ‘primitive’.
For a couple of weeks now I have been beating around the bush trying to find the right words to say what's been bothering me in this health care reform debate, if that's what you want to call the uncivil disobedience that's been going on at these town hall meetings. Self-Care Reform
Instead the only letters that should be excluded from the public view are those (for obvious and practical reasons) that are illegible, libelous, uncivil, slanderous, vulgar or duplicates.
Apparently bloggers really are considered the barbarians at the gates - unrefined, undisciplined and uncivilized.
Cannibalism was regarded as a sign of barbarity, the marker of an uncivilised people.
Incidentally, Geoff, your own comments are rather 'uncivil' - this how you deal with everyone you disagree with? Nice Deb
He implied that there were civilizations and civil peoples, barbaric societies and uncivil peoples.
Hence a bumping lass is a large girl of her age, and a bumpkin is a large-limbed, uncivilized rustic; the idea of grossness of size entering into the idea of a country bumpkin, as well as that of unpolished rudeness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829
I think any sport involving animals where the animals do not have a choice is barbaric and uncivilized.
Still symbolic of uncivilized nature, wild game was transformed from an obstacle into a valuable resource in need of protection.
When she had done her work she used to go into the chimney-corner and sit down among cinders and ashes, which made her commonly be called a cinder maid; but the youngest, who was not so rude and uncivil as the eldest, called her Cinderella. Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories
High, bright windows shone at us when children; told us of the happy life of music in those houses where the girls stepped daintily and smiled at us, a joke we thought uncivilised and cruel.
The stockkeeper -- George Powell was his name -- had got into the dairy, as I thought, to lick the cream, for he was an awful hand on it; but he kept hanging about, and glowering at the milk-pans, and then looking at me, till at last he said some nonsense, and I told him to be off with his daffing; I would tell the master if he said an uncivil word. Mr. Hogarth's Will
The campaign has abounded in mutual accusations of uncivilised behaviour.
Many Democrats tied Mr. Wilson's blowup to what they called the uncivil behavior at town-hall meetings over the summer. 'You Lie!' Jars Washington but Resonates Back Home
As cultured as they are supposed to be their village is uncivilized.
My mother, alas, is still with us, I say alas because passed a certain point prolongation approaches uncivility ( 'un' - is also valid, I looked it up.) Archive 2009-08-01
gentlelady" were put in place: "So that if you have an impulse to say something uncivil, it will sound really inappropriate in that context. Fore, right!
This part of the Empire might be called the ethnological garden of tribes and various races in various stages of uncivilization. Across China on Foot
This establishment of the party-state, or "uncivil society" (by contrast with what he identifies as the imagined or idealized "civil society" celebrated by dissident and Western intellectuals at the time), "brought down its own system. 1989!
‘What she offered,’ notes the author, ‘in her most sensual, primitive, uncivilized and, from the standpoint of normal aesthetics, distasteful acts slipped over the brink - and she could take you with her - into the abysms of the sacred.’
What is uncivilised is the secrecy, guilt, shame and sorrow that surrounds this issue as it stands now.
fighting is crude and uncivilized especially if the weapons are efficient
The public complained of their high-handed behaviour and uncivil ways in public spaces.
Ministers must be faithful to great men in reproving them for their sins, but they must not be rude and uncivil to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
With a feather stuck in his hair and his deep blue eyes, Danlo did in fact look uncivilized and not a little wild. THE BROKEN GOD
If you have come here merely to boast, to be uncivil, and to play on my pride, you insufferable boy, then you had better leave.

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