civility
Example Sentences
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Some staff described concerns about a lack of "civility" between different teams working under stress, and managers who lacked awareness of "the reality of daily pressures".
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
It means conducting ourselves with dignity and civility.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Collectively, they are attacks on basic principles and norms of democracy, civility, decency, equality, fairness, and dignity that American civic life nominally rests on.
From Salon • May 26, 2026
But to me, Dahlia, the real issue about civility isn’t just judge to judge.
From Slate • May 12, 2026
Miss Bingley saw all this likewise; and, in the imprudence of anger, took the first opportunity of saying, with sneering civility:
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing civility
We the People: Civ
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"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
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John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
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