Example Sentences

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Just check out any random Facebook group to witness people engaging uncivilly under their real names.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2021

When others act uncivilly, “you will be tempted to respond in kind; it’s easy to fall into the trap” he added.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2018

Nearly half of those in another study said they were treated uncivilly at work at least once a week, and 12 percent left jobs because they were treated uncivilly, she said.

From Reuters • Aug. 12, 2010

For one thing, C.D. men go out of their way to befriend all sorts of potential demonstrators long before they become uncivilly disobedient.

From Time Magazine Archive

He received us somewhat uncivilly, but showed no mark of suspicion, nor, indeed, of any other emotion, when we told him we wished to search the house.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various