Civility

//sɪˈvɪl.ɪ.ti//

"Civility" in a Sentence (14 examples)

She answered him with cold civility.

One step forward is a step towards civility.

The way a country treats its intellectuals is a sign of its civility. The way a country treats its farmers is a sign of its conscience.

This is a sensitive topic, so we have to approach this discussion with civility and maturity.

Fuck civility.

Why am I not surprised they started preaching for unity and civility and compassion, only after their coup failed?

It is not undeservedly that the Pyrenean guides have acquired the reputation they enjoy for intelligence and civility; and Charlet, of the Hôtel de France, is certainly a most favourable specimen: frugal in his habits, modest in his demeanour, and of great activity of body, he forms the beau ideal of a mountain cicerone.

If you think the biggest problem with society today is the lack of civility, you have been insulated from all the other problems.

Humanity is experiencing a global crisis of civility.

This is an exact Inventory of what we found about the Body of the Man-Mountain, who uſed us with great Civility, and due Reſpect to your Majeſty's Commiſſion.

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December 1749 Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, letter to his son The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be.

Mr Lovelace received from every one those civilities which were due to his birth […]

Monarchies have risen from barbarism to civility, and fallen again to ruin.

For what an enormity is this in a chriſtian realme to ſerue in a ciuility, hauinge the profyt of a Prouoſtſhip and a Deanrye, and a Perſonage? But I wil tel you what is lyke to come of it. It wil bring the clergy ſhortly into a very ſlauery.

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