incivilityformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Polite and respectful
candy coat
candy-coated
chivalric
chivalrous
chivalrously
couth
deferential
deferentially
euphemism for someone/something
euphemistic
hyper-civilized
keep a civil tongue in your headidiom
manner
minced oath
mind/watch your mannersidiom
tactful
tactfully
ultra-civilized
ultra-refined
urbane

civility | American Dictionary

civility
noun[ U ]
us/səˈvɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
the quality of being polite:
I learned how much smoother the day goes when people act with civility (= behave in a polite way).

Examples of civility

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But they were, in general, very unenthusiastic about the rhetoric of civility in guiding them to the destined future.
Its notions of honour and valour were deceptive, as was its concept of civility.
In order to achieve their contradicting aims, they endeavoured to muster as much civility and politeness as they possibly could.
We still are unable to offer a scientifically based answer to queries raised about the nature of man in matters of social civility.
That honour was, as we have seen, composed of the attributes of courage, loyalty, good faith, competence, and civility.
Furthermore, musical dialogues participated in the discourse of civility at the very heart of contemporary concepts of courtliness.
They also make explicit a function of civility: to thank the people one is indebted to.
Singing and recitation gave texts body and - in the same way that civility disciplined the body - enabled educators to discipline reading itself.
Many of the civilities and courtesies between enemies were personal rather than collective.
The animal advocate/ researcher debate explored in this issue is but one domain of contemporary life in which we have lost this balance of civility.
Of these the chief were courage, loyalty, promise-keeping, and civility between enemies.
Forced labor (called, euphemistically, the 'dilution technique ') was a discipline necessary to set ' these degraded sub-humans ' on the path toward civility (p. 255).
Extending civility required institutions and regular processes - a state - to encourage local peace.
This article re-examines the role of civility and politeness in the writings of whig authors from 1688 to 1732.
The boundaries and wider social relevance of the concepts of civility and politeness so carefully analysed here remain unprobed.
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