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Uncivil   /ənsˈɪvəl/   Listen
adjective
Uncivil  adj.  
1.
Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized. "Men can not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together."
2.
Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.





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"Uncivil" Quotes from Famous Books



... minor people—hotel baggagemen, clerks, etc., tram conductors, policemen and the like—will seem to you to be monstrously rude and unobliging. You will be right; they are undoubtedly God-damned uncivil brutes. That is one of the unhappy conditions of our life there. Don't be tempted even to wrangle with them or talk back to them. Pass on, and keep still. If you try to do anything else, the upshot will be your appearing somewhere in print as a damned Britisher for whom American ways are not ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray
... believe not, Hourigan; no, my poor man, I am not indeed. Hourigan, you are not an uncivil person, but why refuse to pay your tithes? You are ...
— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... uncivil in omitting to answer the letter with which you favoured me some time ago. I imagined it to have been written without Mr. Boswell's knowledge, and therefore supposed the answer to require, what I could not ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell
... demand annoyed Rhoda. She frowned and was about to retort just as peremptorily, but an odd bemusement tempered her mood. The man was uncivil enough to be interesting. She said, "I'm busy now," but instead of closing the door, she stepped back into the room. The man came in and it was he who closed ...
— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman
... sold one of them; so it all was left at his door. He could never, God bless him again! I say, bring himself to ask a gentleman for money, despising such sort of conversation himself; but others, who were not gentlemen born, behaved very uncivil in pressing him at this very time, and all he could do to content 'em all was to take himself out of the way as fast as possible to Dublin, where my lady had taken a house fitting for him as a member of Parliament, to attend his duty in there all the ...
— Castle Rackrent • Maria Edgeworth


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