Uncivil
[ʌn'sɪv(ə)l;-vɪl] or [,ʌn'sɪvl]
Definition
(adj.) lacking civility or good manners; 'want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue'- Willa Cather .
Editor: Vlad--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.
(a.) Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Rude, impolite, uncourteous, discourteous, unmannerly, ungentle, unmannered, ungracious, disrespectful, rough, irreverent, blunt, gruff, bearish, BRUSQUE, ill-mannered, ill-bred.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rude, discourteous, disrespectful, disobliging,[See MUTABLE_and_PERISHABLE]
Typist: Pierce
Definition
adj. not civil or courteous rude: (Spens.) not civilised wild.—adj. Unciv′ilised barbarous.—adv. Unciv′illy not civilly or politely.
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Examples
- She attracted him more than he liked--and Miss Bingley was uncivil to _her_, and more teasing than usual to himself. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I _was_ uncivil? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I don't want to be uncivil to him; but I don't wish to see him again; and I have some few little things to return to him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is reckoned uncivil in travelling strangers to enter a village abruptly, without giving notice of their approach. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I must be uncivil to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I saw her in a black gown and widow's cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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