uncivil - definition, synonyms and pronunciation

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lacking civility or good manners“want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue — Willa Cather”Synonyms: rudeRelates to civility

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Un·civ′il adjective

1. Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.

Men can not enjoy the rights of an uncivil and of a civil state together.— Edmund Burke

2. Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54