incivil
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsɪv.ɪl/
Adjective
incivil (comparative more incivil, superlative most incivil)
- (rare) Displaying a lack of courtesy; rude, impolite.
- 2005, Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism - →ISBN Page 235
- "No matter how rude or incivil the existing habits of behavior, in other words, if the creature was in fact a human being, then he/she was necessarily endowed with a soul and thus with a capacity of understanding at least sufficient to absorb and retain Europe's instruction."
- 2005, Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, Social Science and the Challenge of Relativism - →ISBN Page 235
- (rare) Uncivilized, barbarous.
- 2001, M. K. Gandhi, Non-Violent Resistance →ISBN Page 182
- "It will be essentially incivil and criminal."
- 2001, M. K. Gandhi, Non-Violent Resistance →ISBN Page 182
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French
Adjective
incivil (feminine singular incivile, masculine plural incivils, feminine plural inciviles)
Further reading
- “incivil” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /inθiˈbil/, [ĩn̟θiˈβil]
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /insiˈbil/, [ĩnsiˈβil]
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Further reading
- “incivil” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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