Civil and Rude

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Civil

Civil adjective - Showing consideration, courtesy, and good manners.
Usage example: please try to be civil to your ex-husband at the upcoming family wedding
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Rude is an antonym for civil in topics: polite, obliging, civic.
Nearby Words: civility, civilised, civilization, civilly, civilian

Rude

Rude adjective - Showing a lack of manners or consideration for others.
Usage example: it's rude to call someone “ugly”
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Civil is an antonym for rude in impolite topic.
Nearby Words: rudeness, rudely
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  • Royal Brat Being childishly blunt and not knowing any better doesn't help any - and if Elodie is rude enough, she can start a civil war, either by upset nobles or upset peasants.
    Source: Royal Brat
  • In 1937 (during the Spanish Civil War), he and Goebbels had decided to play a friendly trick on Ernst Hanfstaengl, a high-ranking Nazi, in order to get back at him for rude comments he'd made about German soldiers.
    Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Real Life
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