UNCIVIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncivil mean? 

• UNCIVIL (adjective)
  The adjective UNCIVIL has 1 sense:

1. lacking civility or good manners

  Familiarity information: UNCIVIL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCIVIL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking civility or good manners

Synonyms:

rude; uncivil

Context example:

want nothing from you but to get away from your uncivil tongue

Attribute:

civility (formal or perfunctory politeness)

Antonym:

civil (not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others)

 Context examples 

But, whatever might really be its limits, it was enough, when perceived by his sister, to make her uneasy, and at the same time, (which was still more common,) to make her uncivil.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Anxious and uneasy, the period which passed in the drawing-room, before the gentlemen came, was wearisome and dull to a degree that almost made her uncivil.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I saw her in a black gown and widow's cap; frigid, perhaps, but not uncivil: a model of elderly English respectability.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The manner in which it was done so grossly uncivil, hurrying her away without any reference to her own convenience, or allowing her even the appearance of choice as to the time or mode of her travelling; of two days, the earliest fixed on, and of that almost the earliest hour, as if resolved to have her gone before he was stirring in the morning, that he might not be obliged even to see her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then the baked apples came home, Mrs. Wallis sent them by her boy; they are extremely civil and obliging to us, the Wallises, always—I have heard some people say that Mrs. Wallis can be uncivil and give a very rude answer, but we have never known any thing but the greatest attention from them.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She attracted him more than he liked—and Miss Bingley was uncivil to her, and more teasing than usual to himself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners—my behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With many compliments to them, and much self-gratulation on the prospect of a connection between the houses, he unfolded the matter—to an audience not merely wondering, but incredulous; for Mrs. Bennet, with more perseverance than politeness, protested he must be entirely mistaken; and Lydia, always unguarded and often uncivil, boisterously exclaimed: Good Lord! Sir William, how can you tell such a story?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)