Synonym: ceremonious, common, courteous, polite, public, social. Antonym: impolite, martial, military, rude, uncivil. Similar words: civilian, civil rights, civic, heavily, divide, divine, activity, activist. Meaning: ['sɪvl] adj. 1. applying to ordinary citizens 2. not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others 3. of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state 4. of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals 5. (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life 6. of or in a condition of social order.
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121. Unemployment was high despite the gains of the civil rights movement.
122. He had been opposed by a coalition of about 50 civil rights, women's and Latino organizations.
123. He is currently writing a dissertation on the Somali civil war.
124. She'd had a typical nine-to-five job in the civil service before she worked in the theatre.
125. He was awarded the peace Nobal Prize of 1964 for advocating nonviolence policy in the movement for civil rights. Sentencedict.com
126. The introduction of identity cards has been opposed by the campaign for civil liberties.
127. There were food shortages and other deprivations during the Civil War.
128. The less time I have to spend being civil to him the better!
129. Civil Servants are required to sign the Official Secrets Act.
130. The fact that he is gone has given more weight to fears that he may try to launch a civil war.
131. They came to power in 1975 after a bloody civil war.
132. The North defeated the South in the American Civil War.
133. We weren't married in church,[sentencedict.com] but we had a civil ceremony in a registry office.
134. The Patriotic Front took power after a three-month civil war.
135. The continuing civil war is frustrating the efforts of relief agencies to feed thousands of famine victims.
136. The government have imposed a freeze on civil service appointments.
137. Civil rights officials say there may be hundreds of other cases of racial violence.
138. It was a bitter civil war, that pitted neighbour against neighbour.
139. They were married on August 9 in a civil ceremony in Venice.
140. There is likely to be civil war if the region tries to secede from the south.
141. The police are the only civil servants who have to swear allegiance to the Crown.
142. Diplomats denounced the leaders for trampling their citizens' civil rights.
143. Gandhi and Martin Luther King both led campaigns of civil disobedience to try to persuade the authorities to change their policies.
144. A senior civil servant has been disciplined for revealing secret government plans to the media.
145. He's a local government administrator, that is to say a civil servant.
146. He brought civil proceedings against the police for false imprisonment.
147. The terrible spectre of civil war hung over the country once again.
148. He said companies should face punitive civil penalties running into millions of pounds.
149. My father pulled a few strings to get me into the Civil Service.
150. He used his friends to help him get into the civil service by the back door.
More similar words: civilian, civil rights, civic, heavily, divide, divine, activity, activist, division, oblivious, sensitivity, productivity, Thanksgiving, the cost of living.