How to Use uncivil in a Sentence

uncivil

adjective

• And if some of that comes across as a little uncivil, well, children's lives are at stake.
  — Fox News, 30 June 2018
• For a time, the whole nation embraced its uncivil face.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, Washington Post, 4 July 2018
• This does not mean we are required to be vicious or uncivil.
  — Thomas Healy, The Atlantic, 18 June 2017
• Now, says Mercieca, those in power are often the most uncivil.
  — Ashley Merryman, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
• And let’s be frank: Some of these conversations are uncivil, even downright nasty at times.
  — oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2019
• The push for civility comes six months into a rancorous and uncivil first session of the 118th Congress.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2023
• This was no Civil Conflict; this was an uncivil seal-clubbing.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• What is more uncivil and cruel than taking children away?
  — Fox News, 30 June 2018
• These monuments are symbols that tell us less about the actual Civil War but more about the uncivil peace that followed.
  — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2017
• These monuments are symbols that tell us less about the actual Civil War but more about the uncivil peace that followed.
  — Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian, 20 Aug. 2017
• If anything, Moisuc and her colleagues seem to have found that people who stand up in the face of uncivil behaviors are the opposite of complainers.
  — Daisy Grewal, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• This is the fellow, after all, who declared personnel war on uncivil behavior in the White House ranks.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• Now this series upcoming is going to probably be a lot more uncivil than what the series against the Kraken was.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
• In this new world, Hoge became something of an outlier, a civilized voice in an uncivil era.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2023
• The Twitter matter might have ended there, but Newsweek wrote about Gallego's uncivil tweet, bringing his words to Greene's attention.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2021
• In the three days before the president's diagnosis, the Syracuse project rated roughly 2% of Biden's ads as uncivil in tone, compared to between 3% and 10% for Mr. Trump's.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020
• The idea that civilization is often uncivil is not nearly new.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Both people are honest and compelling, and the film explores the often toxic and uncivil nature of social media and the import and basic joys of familial ties.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• There were also protests and uncivil unrest that resulted in damages to more than 80 businesses.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2022
• My 2016, pre-election encounter now appears to be one of countless examples of the sort of uncivil discourse that has since become normal in our society.
  — Blake D. Morant, The Atlantic, 24 May 2018
• Lajsic and others said they were shocked at the allegations of uncivil behavior.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
• Where Twitter and its commenters can be uncivil and cruel, the vast majority of my newsletter replies were from nice people thanking me for writing them.
  — Tania Ganguli Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• Some of these conversations are uncivil, even downright nasty.
  — Kelly Scott | [e-mail], al, 25 Feb. 2020
• But when that was pointed out, the people who pointed it out were accused of being uncivil or polarizing or offensive.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2021
• In that roiling year, with disobedience civil and uncivil at critical mass, Poitier was at the height of a singular career.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 1 Feb. 2017
• The post on Facebook was removed as the discussion grew increasingly uncivil, Barrios said.
  — Richard Chang, sacbee.com, 23 June 2017
• And speaking of social media: Damsels in Distress was a movie about four girls who are trying to keep things civil in a uncivil world—to bring back decorum and preserve traditional modes of behavior.
  — Mary Kaye Schilling, Town & Country, 27 Apr. 2016
• But, come on, voters already have ample reason to reject this guy, starting with his uncivil behavior.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• This may not be the most uncivil political era of all time, Jacobs argues, but there’s something about it that is distinctively terrible.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2017
• Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala., could certainly be defined as uncivil behavior.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, Washington Post, 4 July 2018

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