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
  • 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 | Kscott@al.com, 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
  • And then to move further to the left because of one election that occurred in one Congressional district now, to encourage uncivil disobedience.
    Fox News, 3 July 2018

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