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
• Now, says Mercieca, those in power are often the most uncivil.
  — Ashley Merryman, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2018
• The discourse seems to be more of an uncivil war conducted on the anti-social networks.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• This was no Civil Conflict; this was an uncivil seal-clubbing.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019
• The idea that civilization is often uncivil is not nearly new.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• For gentlemen of that era, uncivil words were violence.
  — Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
• Some of these conversations are uncivil, even downright nasty.
  — Kelly Scott | [email protected], al, 25 Feb. 2020
• As a border state, the war caused some of the most uncivil acts as neighbors and families fought over the issues of slavery and states rights.
  — Curtis Varnell, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
• In this new world, Hoge became something of an outlier, a civilized voice in an uncivil era.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2023
• Both mark the progression from civil dialogue to uncivil dialogue to force and fear.
  — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
• Indeed, content analyses commonly show that about a fifth of all comments are somewhat uncivil.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026
• Lajsic and others said they were shocked at the allegations of uncivil behavior.
  — Jane Ford-Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
• But, come on, voters already have ample reason to reject this guy, starting with his uncivil behavior.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Harder still to see the people who have persevered through it all and the culture that preserves signs of civilization, even in deeply uncivil times.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
• There were also protests and uncivil unrest that resulted in damages to more than 80 businesses.
  — Alexandria Burris, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The uncivil war will likely continue to rage on, especially on social media.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The expressions of protest are an answer to decidedly uncivil policies.
  — refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
• This is the fellow, after all, who declared personnel war on uncivil behavior in the White House ranks.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• 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
• History has shown us that giving government moral authority over its people is a route to an uncivil society.
  — Charles F. Miller, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
• Participants in these studies read about a greater variety of scenarios where people engaged in uncivil or immoral acts.
  — Daisy Grewal, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• Mostly, these rules have been, and continue to be, an attempt to establish a veneer of civility in uncivil endeavors.
  — Roxane Gay, WIRED, 11 June 2016
• 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
• In that roiling year, with disobedience civil and uncivil at critical mass, Poitier was at the height of a singular career.
  — vanityfair.com, 1 Feb. 2017
• Cropper is also worried about the consequences of uncivil behavior of angry adults crowding school board meetings to challenge policies.
  — cleveland, 7 Nov. 2021